Nature

‘Make Pluto a planet again’? NASA chief revives debate that divides astronomers

On Tuesday, responding to a question during a testimony to a US Senate committee, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman said he ...
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Why is Pluto no longer a planet?

Pluto is no longer a planet, but why did it lose that title? The change came in 2006 from the International Astronomical ...

A push for planet Pluto

It's time to revisit the 9th planet.
BGR

Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here's What We Know

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

From 9 Planets to 8… and Now a Comeback Talk: Why Pluto Lost Its Status and Why It’s Back in Debate

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, but new discoveries and fresh debate are reigniting calls to restore its ...
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NASA reignites Pluto planet debate, stoking U.S. pride and global pushback

NASA reignites Pluto planet debate, stoking U.S. pride and global pushback U.S. push to restore Plutos status collides with ...
Lawrence Journal-World

KU’s Physics and Astronomy department hosting ‘Pluto Day’ event, celebrating science of space and the dwarf planet’s KU connection

An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...
Phys.org

Is this the first hint of Planet Nine?

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...