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

NASA’s most recent photos of Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, have revealed some of the most intriguing and ...

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have ...

Some astronomers advocate for a broader classification that would include Pluto and other similar bodies as planets, but such proposals have yet to gain widespread acceptance.Until then ...

It probably qualifies as a dwarf planet, the same classification as Pluto. Temporarily named 2017 OF201, it takes more than 24,000 years to travel around the sun just once along a highly ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around the Sun that ...

For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a German ...

Scientists with the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Natural Sciences say they have found a possible dwarf planet that they have dubbed an "extreme cousin" of Pluto. They say that the possible ...

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

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The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system. Astronomers have indeed discovered a potential new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond ...