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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...