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On January 17, 2006 the New Horizons mission will launch for Pluto, the last unexplored planet of the solar system — or is it? Some scientists now claim that Pluto does not deserve its planetary ...

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 ...

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 are less than two weeks away from the 95th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto, the ice-caked, rocky sphere orbiting ...

For generations Pluto stood as the mythic ninth planet until a scientific revolution shattered that legacy and transformed it ...

PHOENIX — As far as Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Legislature are concerned, Pluto now belongs to Arizona — to the extent a state can “own’’ a planet. But Hobbs dodged the question of whether Pluto is a ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define solar objects.

Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke of a world this April Fools' Day and the folks behind Pluto TV want to make that clear. On April 1, ...

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