For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

Pluto isn't alone—it's part of the Kuiper Belt with possibly hundreds of other planet-sized objects. Because Pluto hasn't achieved gravitational dominance in its region, the International Astronomical ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

But these theories didn’t account for the fact that Pluto and Charon may have more structural integrity as icy, rocky bodies on the frigid edge of the solar system. “Pluto and Charon are ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may ... a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on ...

"It's half Pluto's size and 12% of its mass, which makes it much more similar to the Earth's moon than any other moon in the solar system." For comparison, our moon is just a quarter of the size ...

Charon is unusual because it is the largest moon in the solar system compared with its parent body. In fact, Charon and Pluto are so similar in size that they are considered a double dwarf planet ...

If the solar system had a corporate structure, Jupiter would be the CEO, while Saturn ensures rules are followed. Venus ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.