Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science ...

Many planet classification schemes have been proposed ... These bodies were approximately the size of Pluto, which was then considered a planet. With a new definition, the small worlds and Pluto ...

New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...

When this happened, Alan Stern, the principal investigator behind the New Horizons Pluto fly-by mission, was not very amused. Our current classification system of what makes a planet a planet just ...

Pluto should be reclassified as a planet ... Instead, Metzger recommends a planet classification based on whether it is sufficiently large so that its gravity allows it to become spherical ...

Both Morison and Byrne agree the IAU classification has had a scientific impact, and think Pluto and similar bodies should be classified as planets. But “it’s not particularly crucial ...

Long ago, in the pre-iPhone dark ages of 2006, Pluto was rebranded from its status as a planet and downgraded to dwarf planet classification, changing high school physics class forever.

Why Pluto Doesn't Fit "Pluto is a dwarf planet. So be it — it's a classification," says Thierry Montmerle, the group's general secretary. "It's not a demotion or a promotion." He says Pluto ...

Not cool, science. Anyway, there’s been talk of reinstating the icy dwarf sphere’s official planet classification since 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft did a Pluto flyby and sent back ...

Make Pluto a planet again. According to a new study ... in 1802 — included rules about cleaning orbits, the IAU’s classification was faulty. “It’s a sloppy definition,” he said in ...