Parade. If romance and connection are on your mind, you’ll love what the sky offers you over the next few weeks! Venus, the ...

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have discovered a new planet in our solar system.

A new dwarf planet named 2017 OF201 has been discovered far beyond Neptune. It sits in a region previously thought to be empty. Its existence raises questions about the structure of our solar system ...

Pluto has never been much of a planet — small, wired orbit, not much atmosphere — and questions about its status have been raised periodically since its discovery 76 years ago. This week ...

Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification as a planet. Shatner playfully suggested Musk persuade the President via ...

A legendary actor has taken a surprising turn to the right and is calling on President Trump to make Pluto great again.

Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for over 75 years, orbiting at the chilly fringes ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined what constitutes a planet, leading to Pluto’s ...

Instead, planets were loosely regarded as objects ... This sparked debate about Pluto's status in the planetary canon, which came to a head at a 2006 meeting in Prague. That year, the IAU tasked ...

Stars can orbit stars. Why can’t planets orbit planets? The debate over Pluto’s status highlights the evolving nature of scientific classification. Definitions should reflect our growing ...

In a controversial vote, astronomers — not planetary scientists — “demoted” Pluto to the status of being classified as a dwarf planet, taking away one major planet and reducing the number ...

Arizona--a southwestern US state—has recently declared Pluto as its ‘official state planet’ despite the ‘dwarf planet’ being stripped of its official status as a planet in 2006 by the ...