Learn about the recently discovered trans-Neptunian object that may eventually join Pluto as a dwarf planet, found at the ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, ...

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

song, Interplanet Janet. Upon the discovery of its existence in 1930, Pluto enjoyed decades of special status as one of the solar system's planets. Then, in the summer of 2006, Pluto was demoted.

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

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 ...

The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

Here's what to know about the short life of what was, for a single human lifetime, the solar system's smallest planet. Pluto was discovered ... it was "demoted" to the status of a dwarf planet ...