Aug. 24, aka #PlutoDemotedDay, is when Pluto became a dwarf planet. For 76 years — from its discovery in 1930 until 2006 — Pluto was considered a planet. Countless school children learned their nine ...

Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke of a world this April Fools' Day and the folks behind Pluto TV want to make that clear. On April 1, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A single day on Pluto is as long as 6.9 Earth days. Today, Feb. 18 is Pluto Day. You may ask yourself why Pluto has its own day since it is no longer considered a planet of our ...

Everything you know about Pluto is probably wrong. Just ask a kid. Kids are much more up-to-date with knowledge about space and dinosaurs and other cool stuff we grown-ups haven’t read about in … well ...

On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted to strictly define a planet, which ultimately downgraded Pluto from the ninth planet from the sun to a dwarf planet — causing controversy ...

WASHINGTON -- "Our sidewalk dodged a bullet," said Harvey Leifert, spokesman for the American Geophysical Union, offering his take on the great solar system shake-up of 2006. When the Washington-based ...

Discovery has ordered a mini-documentary special on the dwarf planet Pluto that will take a closer look at the controversy surrounding the former planet and why it was demoted to dwarf status in 2006, ...

Pluto was stripped of its planetary status yesterday in a controversial decision made by the International Astronomical Union that has raised mixed reactions among the UA scientific community. Larry ...