Pluto: where the sun does shine---only a thousandth as brightly as on Earth. Despite the dwarf planet's paltry illumination, NASA’s New Horizons probe has reliably been sending images as the it ...

From this vantage, Pluto still looks like something out of an 8-bit video game, but it shows we’re getting tantalizingly close to the dwarf planet. New Horizons’ July 14 flyby will give us our ...

Fortunately, there's far more to Pluto than its unique history among the other planets. Our solar system has gotten a little bit more crowded, both closer to home and out beyond Pluto's neck of ...

For Pluto and the 8 planets, this process begins with clouds ... That coagulation creates larger "grains" of dust, "a bit like if you don't clean your room often enough — you're going to get ...

Earth! And we are still a planet, right? So the whole thing is a bit silly. Whatever you call it, Pluto is still out there, an intriguing, distant body in our solar system and the last significant ...

If you answered "Pluto's planethood," your grasp of the astronomical is excellent. Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for over 75 years, orbiting at the chilly fringes of our solar neighborhood. But then scientists at the International Astronomical Union decided ...

Katie Hobbs signed a bill making Pluto the official ... They took your planet away. SANCHEZ: The issue of Arizona being slighted has created a bit of a conspiracy theory that riled up legislators ...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 ...

Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto ... the giant planets beyond the asteroid belt, was discovered—thirty times farther from the Sun than our Earth. With 8 planets ...

while the other depicts the pair orbiting their collective center of gravity (Pluto was demoted from planet status in 2006 partly because of Charon’s huge relative size—one-tenth that of the l ...