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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 ...

The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...

The debate over Pluto’s planetary status has been ongoing since its reclassification as a “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Recent discussions and new scientific ...

This is part of a series of articles written by members of the Westfield High School Space and Astronomy Club. Their mission is to share their enthusiasm for space and astronomical events with the ...

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 ...

We are less than two weeks away from the 95th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto, the ice-caked, rocky sphere orbiting ...

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That seems to be the aim of a new study that urges Pluto be returned to its former planetary glory. The research, published in the scientific journal Icarus, says Pluto never should have been ...

On January 17, 2006 the New Horizons mission will launch for Pluto, the last unexplored planet of the solar system — or is it? Some scientists now claim that Pluto does not deserve its planetary ...