Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science doesn't see it that way.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

This 2015 NASA image of Pluto combines blue, red and infrared images. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to one of dozens of dwarf planets. After its discovery in 1930 ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has confirmed a groundbreaking hypothesis about Pluto’s atmospheric conditions, ...

Thanks to the powerful vision of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have just confirmed something truly ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

But in 2006, Pluto’s planetary reign came to an end when the International Astronomical Union redefined what makes a planet. As a result, Pluto was reclassified as a “dwarf planet,” sparking ...

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...

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. From that day forward ...

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted to a dwarf planet. Things have been a bit of a ...