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 ...
The head of NASA says maybe Pluto is a planet after all. He is wrong because Pluto is part of the rest of the solar system ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nasa may revisit one of outer space’s thorniest questions ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wants to put an end to a decades-long debate among scientists. Is Pluto a planet or not? Isaacman says it should be — but it hasn’t been one for 20 years. That’s ...
A new formation theory for Pluto's moon Charon could explain why Pluto is geologically active. Illustration incorporates NASA New Horizons terrain imagery. Pluto — demoted to dwarf planets status in ...
Two decades ago, the International Astronomical Union—which defines and names celestial bodies—redefined the criteria for ...
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 ...