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Discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory, Pluto was demoted as a planet in 2006. Some want President Trump to take action ...

Debate has raged for two decades over whether Pluto should be considered a planet. Some want President Trump to take action ...

A long-settled space debate is back in the spotlight after fresh political backing in the United States. Calls to restore ...

Pluto, discovered 90 years ago on Feb. 18, 1930, was long considered the solar system's ninth planet. Although small, it orbits the sun and has the spherical shape required to be considered a planet.

For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, 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 ...

After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new ...

(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun. The correct number is 3.7 billion miles.) What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague? If ...

Nine years, 3 billion miles, and $700 million later, we are finally getting the very first high resolution photos of Pluto, thanks to a NASA spacecraft called New Horizons. It’s a pretty small planet ...