Two decades ago, the International Astronomical Union—which defines and names celestial bodies—redefined the criteria for ...
If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur and former astronaut, is once again pushing for a planetary ...
NASA chief Jared Isaacman said at a US Senate hearing that he supports restoring Pluto's status as a planet after a ...
The NASA administrator’s latest remarks in support of reexamining Pluto’s status come 20 years after the orb was downgraded ...
Is Pluto a planet? At a U.S. Senate committee hearing this week, NASA's chief shared his thoughts on the decades-long debate.
New NASA research hints that Ceres — the closest dwarf planet to Earth — may have once had an ancient "power source" that could have sparked the evolution of extraterrestrial life-forms in the tiny ...
The celestial body’s status as the solar system's ninth planet was withdrawn in 2006. Now some experts say we might want to ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...