Kids in school are learning about the eight planets and the (currently) five dwarf planets. In order from the Sun ... of a planet refined: after all, the current definition doesn’t include ...

Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science ...

Dwarf planets are smaller planets that do not meet all three categories of a planet ... listed here in order of closest proximity to the Earth: Ceres: Located in the Asteroid Belt between ...

There, it was decided that in order for an object to be considered ... we could include all of the dwarf planets and even moons. He says he often gets the question, “How will children memorize ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say ... including comets and dwarf planets -- which stretches from Neptune ...