On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted to strictly define a planet, which ultimately downgraded Pluto from the ninth planet from the sun to a dwarf planet — causing controversy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

There is a debate in the scientific community over whether Pluto should be a planet again. But a new study affirms that the dwarf planet's "beating heart" is impacting its atmospheric circulation ...

We Gave It a Name, So It Became Ours Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, a 24-year-old farm boy from Kansas ...

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. Have a question you’d like an expert to answer? Send it to CuriousKidsCanada@theconversation.com. Why does it matter if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Scientists may have spotted more than a half dozen clouds in Pluto's hazy atmosphere, researchers announced Tuesday. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in July 2015, ...

A lot of people were pretty upset when Pluto got its big demotion. And we get it. It's nice to have some consistency in a chaotic universe. But it's time to put that elementary-school nostalgia away ...