Debate has raged for two decades over whether Pluto should be considered a planet. Some want President Trump to take action ...

Pluto has long been one of the most debated celestial bodies in our solar system. Once classified as the ninth planet, it was redefined in 2006 as a dwarf planet, a decision that still sparks ...

(MEDIA GENERAL) – As NASA spacecraft New Horizons continues its way through space, scientists and science enthusiasts have taken to social media to express their feelings on Tuesday’s historic Pluto ...

The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first ...

Scientists have recently unveiled a remarkable discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system: a space fossil located 4 billion miles past Pluto, covered in unidentified organic molecules. This ...

To boldly go where we were not too long ago. Legendary actor William Shatner wants President Trump to restore Pluto to greatness as scientists claim to have found a “new” ninth planet. “So there’s a ...

Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active ...

Mike Brown is an academic, a serious scientist who brought the farthest reaches of our solar system down to Earth. Brown's "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming," filled with scientific ...

Before Pluto was discovered, it was predicted. Astronomers had observed that massive objects can affect the orbits of their neighbors and, after seeing deviations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, ...