Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Whether Pluto is ... vote on this word that’s not really part of our wheelhouse," he said, adding he voted against the de-classification. But turning our nine-planet solar system into eight ...

Anything that traveled a significant distance during that time—a planet or an asteroid, for example—would appear to move as the images ... Pluto is the only place in the solar system where ...

Flyby New Horizons Pluto Solar System Spacecraft Get the best tech ... explain why a common type in space is so uncommon on our planet. While Lunar Trailblazer's mission is no longer possible ...

Astronomers spotted 139 new objects in our solar system ... a clearer picture of what lies beyond Neptune has always proven to be challenging for scientists. The still-mythical “Planet Nine ...

And if you are still a Pluto ... the solar system is full of bodies, and some are large, and some are small. Some are in regular orbits, and some are not. Which we call “planets” and which ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system ... "Planet 9" exists. So far, the only evidence has come from some oddities in the orbits of small Pluto ...

Take a look behind the scenes and find out how The Planets team brought the worlds of the Solar System to life ... reveals how you turn Iceland into Pluto, Jordan into Mars and even Lanzarote ...

Credit: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images Mike Brown killed Pluto. He had his reasons. But the astronomer did not set out to reclassify the solar system’s ninth planet as a dwarf. Brown was ...