Pluto's 2006 status change from planet to dwarf planet is still a sore subject for many, including a fourth grader in Tampa, ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has responded to the letter of a 10-year-old space enthusiast in which she pleads with him to make Pluto a planet again. The letter, posted by X account Mike's ...

Although the photo does show Pluto, the colors within it appear to have been enhanced. On May 20, 2024, X account @MAstronomers posted a colorful image of a celestial object and claimed it showed the ...

Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated his support for President Trump to take action to ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...