Rosetta traveled hither and yon across the inner solar system for 10 years to finally reach its target comet. NASA's New Horizons probe, bound for Pluto, will take nearly as long. Launched in 2006, it ...

Great news everyone: Pluto is a planet again! Or at least, Bethesda certainly seems to think so, as it seems to be one in Starfield. Way back in 2006, the International Astronomy Union General ...

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Pluto was unofficially upgraded on Tuesday as Nasa announced that it had completed its mission to visit every planet in the Solar System. Although the icy world was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006, ...

A new study from the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida surveyed centuries of planet literature and found that the decision that led to Pluto’s demotion stemmed from ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto's doorstep. Philip Metzger from the New Horizons mission told DW that they expect to find many surprises on Pluto - which he doesn't consider to be a dwarf ...

Last year, astronomers discovered a "tenth planet." This new planet is similar to, but slightly larger than, Pluto. All of this is exciting news, but not without controversy. Now, some scientists say ...

Scientists love finding unexplained phenomena, and last week’s first close-up images of Pluto gave them enough to chew on for months to come. They expected a landscape of craters – small, medium and ...