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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes that Pluto should be a planet again. “I am here to tell you, as the NASA Administrator, I believe Pluto should be a planet,” he said, to applause during a ...

Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice ...

You know what a planet is, right? A big round thing that orbits a star. Uh, not so fast. You know what a planet is, right? A big round thing that orbits a star. Uh, not so fast. The surprisingly ...

Pluto may have lost its status as a planet more than 13 years ago, but don't tell that to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Speaking at the University of Colorado recently, Bridenstine made it clear ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

We discovered something: Pluto was different! Pluto was discovered because Neptune’s orbit showed an anomaly that indicated that there was something else out there. So they looked and eventually Clyde ...

Named for the maiden snatching, shadow dwelling god of the underworld, small but mighty planet Pluto moves into Aquarius for the first time in two and a half centuries on March 23, 2023. Petit but ...

Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet over 10 years ago, but it's something that still seems so damn unfair. How do you take away its planet status after 76 years? On the other hand, science is ...

The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...