A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the ...

On 24 August 2006, Pluto's status was downgraded from a full sized planet, which it had donned for more than 70 years, to a dwarf planet by ... more might be found to rival Pluto in size ...

Still, Ceres remains a dwarf planet. Perhaps as it should, given Pluto's relegation to dwarf planet — Pluto is 14 times larger than Ceres. Both Ceres and Pluto are given this designation because ...

This means Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet rather than a major planet like its formerly assumed siblings. Dwarf planets are smaller planets that do not meet all three categories of a planet.

No no no, not that Pluto, this Pluto the planet, or should I say, the dwarf planet on august 24th 2006. The ninth planet from the sun was *** officially demoted to *** dwarf planet by *** group of ...

Although the photo does show Pluto, the colors within it appear to have been enhanced. On May 20, 2024, X account @MAstronomers posted a colorful image of a celestial object and claimed it showed ...

IAU members decided that there were three criteria to be a planet — and Pluto didn't meet all of them. But planetary scientist Wladymir Lyra says that even though it was downgraded to a dwarf ...