Pluto was once the ninth planet in the solar system, but striped of that title back in 2006. Now classified as a dwarf planet, Pluto was discovered in 1930. According to NASA, the dwarf planet is ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, ... and threw in a few actually fun Pluto facts in along with the science during his tweetstorm, making a little bit of fun of himself in the ...

Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status in 2006, just months after the spacecraft that Bowman manages, called New Horizons, began its 3 billion-mile journey to pay a visit.

Pluto was long considered our ninth planet, but the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in ...

Pluto is still not a planet, but it may have regained some of its former glory—new pictures suggest the demoted world is in fact the biggest dwarf planet of them all. While Pluto had always been ...

Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in the solar system, it was demoted in 2006 to dwarf planet status. We explore this icy body in more detail here.

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

Pluto's status has been a heated debate for decades with arguing over a dwarf planet classification. Here's what international standards say in 2023. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

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.

The dwarf planet Eris kickstarted the debate over Pluto’s planethood after its discovery in 2005 by astronomers Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz. Initial measurements showed Eris ...

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.