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Pluto was long considered our ninth planet, but the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in ...
Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest moon—including the presence of ...
What if there’s a planet hiding in our solar system, 10 times larger than Earth? While this theory has yet to be confirmed, ...
For many of us, the idea of a solar system with just eight planets is a fundamental concept in science. However, since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, Neptune has stood as the last ...
Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its status as the ninth planet in our Solar System.
A new framework urges leaders to see the world as PLUTO: polarized, liquid, unilateral, tense and omnirelational, and to ...
Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...
What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...
Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...