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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later
The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.
NASA’s Webb Just Found Something Unexpected Beyond Neptune
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...
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Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?
Pluto isn't alone—it's part of the Kuiper Belt with possibly hundreds of other planet-sized objects. Because Pluto hasn't ...
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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time
Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...
New Theory Explains How Ancient Earth Came to Be So Wet
Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...
Who doesn't love a parade, especially a planet parade? How and when to see up to 7 planets
Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.
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Planetary alignment happening in February: Planets make 'string' across California skies
Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...
How Arizona put Pluto on the map 95 years ago today
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.
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Planetary alignment happening in February: Planets make 'string' across California skies
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAS) reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet. That decision came several years after discovering the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy and rocky objects 2.8 ...