Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA chief Jared Isaacman has doubled down on his stance that Pluto is without a doubt a planet. For two decades, controversy has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guests visting the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona during the I Heart Pluto Festival gaze at celestial objects from the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed its swift flyby of Pluto after a nine-year journey. The mission prioritized data ...

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 ...

Astronomy.com: We were going to write something new about Pluto here. But Astronomy Magazine editor Dave Eicher has already done the heavy lifting. Before we get to the experts here’s how Dave ...

For decades, scientists and the general public have argued over the astronomical status of beloved dwarf planet Pluto. In the latest salvo, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that he was “very ...

Pluto is an icy dwarf planet that usually lies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the Kuiper Belt. The dwarf planet is smaller than Earth's Moon, with red snow-capped mountains as tall as the Rockies.

It’s been 18 years since Pluto’s celestial status was called into question—yet the matter seems far from settled. We asked experts from both sides to make their case. This 2015 NASA image of Pluto ...

NASA chief Jared Isaacman has doubled down on his stance that Pluto is without a doubt a planet. For two decades, controversy has surrounded the distant icy world after it was infamously stripped of ...

For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the ...