It’s been 18 years since Pluto’s celestial status was called ... (This is what a debate among astronomers talking about the term ‘dwarf planets’ was like.) Philip Metzger: We would say ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006 ... Pluto is still classified as a dwarf planet. Despite ongoing debate and public support for its ...

Instead, planets were loosely regarded as objects ... solar system later named the Kuiper Belt. This sparked debate about Pluto's status in the planetary canon, which came to a head at a 2006 ...

What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague? If you answered "Pluto's planethood," your grasp of the ...

In a 2014 debate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ... astronomers voted to “demote” Pluto to dwarf planet status. These were astronomers at the meeting, not planetary scientists — a ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you ...

10 minutes and 1 pro tip Pluto is Arizona's official state planet Regardless of the debate about its status, Pluto is Arizona's official state planet. In March 2024, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs ...

Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of the planets discussed in the show might lose their status next. So we thought it might be useful to tell the ...

Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification as a planet. Shatner playfully suggested Musk persuade the President via ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.