Here’s how it works. This space wallpaper shows an artist’s impression of how the surface of Pluto might look, according to one of the two models that a team of astronomers has developed to ...

This stunning space wallpaper shows Pluto in color as New Horizons scientists combined four images from the spacecraft Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) with color data from the Ralph ...

The major planet roster has changed over the years, but Pluto is still beloved by the science community and regularly makes headlines. In July 2022, the National Aeronautics and Space ...

A decade ago they all decided that Pluto wasn’t a planet—it was actually a dwarf planet—and now all of a sudden they want to change it back? Maybe you even think that this just goes to show ...

The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 ...

song, Interplanet Janet. Upon the discovery of its existence in 1930, Pluto enjoyed decades of special status as one of the solar system's planets. Then, in the summer of 2006, Pluto was demoted.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a bill making Pluto the official state planet. It was discovered at an observatory in Arizona, but was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006. Arizona Governor Katie ...

When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it surprised a lot of people, including some scientists. Even many years later, some ...