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

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 ...

When NASA’s New Horizons probe finally flew past Pluto, the images it sent back completely changed how we see this tiny world ...

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 ...

Scientists who argue for Pluto to be classified as a planet are getting more ammo for a debate that has raged over the last 15 years. A team of researchers published a study in the scientific journal ...

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, ...

The planet Neptune wobbled in its orbit around the Sun. That could only mean one thing, astronomers said: There was a ninth planet out there, somewhere, lurking in the fringes of the solar system.

The science community may be ecstatic over the discovery of a ninth planet, but the former planet "Pluto" had a totally different reaction. Hours after scientists announced there's solid evidence of ...

Named for the maiden-snatching, shadow-dwelling god of the underworld, the small but mighty planet Pluto is associated with destruction, subversion, depth, intensity, primal urges, the taboo, the ...

(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun. The correct number is 3.7 billion miles.) What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague? If ...