For generations Pluto stood as the mythic ninth planet until a scientific revolution shattered that legacy and transformed it ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...

The New Horizons Pluto flyby revealed unexpectedly complex geological features on dwarf planets, prompting further investigation into the diversity within the Kuiper Belt. Several dwarf planets, ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

When NASA’s New Horizons probe finally flew past Pluto, the images it sent back completely changed how we see this tiny world ...

“My very excellent mother just served us nine.” It doesn’t quite work without “pizzas” at the end. Nor do other schoolchild mnemonics for remembering the planets of the solar system, now that Pluto ...

When it was a planet, Pluto was the Jan Brady of the solar system, always being shunned because of all of the attention a bigger sibling got. ("Mars! Mars! Mars! It's always Mars!") Three years ago ...

Los astrónomos se han preguntado durante mucho tiempo cómo Caronte, una luna tan grande, llegó a orbitar Plutón. Una nueva simulación sugiere cómo acabó allí. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Charon is large ...

Though the dwarf planet Eris on the edge of the solar system is much denser than Pluto, the two frigid worlds are nearly exactly the same size, a new study finds. Astronomers accurately measured Eris' ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...