In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One year on the distant ice planet is 248 Earth years, and one day is 153 ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

"Get over it. It's done. Just get over it." The StarTalk Radio host explains why it makes perfect sense to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet. Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Will Wei, & Alana ...

To understand what happened to Pluto ... "dwarf planets"—much as asteroids are sometimes called "minor planets." While some people mourned the passing of Pluto from mainstream planet to this ...

But why? Back in the early '90s ... region and isn't stuck in Pluto's orbit. The end result? Pluto is bumped from "planet" to "dwarf planet." Now, Stern argues that a dwarf planet is a kind ...

"Get over it. It's done. Just get over it." The StarTalk Radio host explains why it makes perfect sense to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet. Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Will Wei, & Alana ...

The mission, which was launched in 2006, took detailed photographs of the surface of Pluto, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the Kuiper belt. Now, a new scientific article published in the ...

Named for the maiden-snatching, shadow-dwelling god of the underworld, the small but mighty planet Pluto is associated with destruction, subversion, depth, intensity, primal urges, the taboo ...