The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.
“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...
Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...
At the very beginning of its history, Earth was dry. How did it become a blue planet? A new theory could provide an answer.
Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...
Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Discover the real reason behind Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet and the science that led to this change.
Pluto failed the third criterion. Unlike the eight recognized planets, Pluto shares its orbit with many other objects in the Kuiper Belt, meaning it has not "cleared its neighbourhood." ...
Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.
Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries ...
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAS) reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. That decision came several years after discovering the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy and rocky objects 2.8 ...