Scientists have called for Pluto to be classified as a planet again following a new study into planetary science. Pluto was controversially relegated to the status of “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

Is Pluto a planet? What's up with the "space jellyfish?" And are aliens real? Astrophysicist, speaker and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is stopping in Pittsburgh later this month, answers our ...

An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

Pluto’s dark side has come into dim view, thanks to the light of the dwarf planet’s moon. When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, almost all the images of the dwarf planet’s ...

This image of Pluto captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft combines blue, red and infrared images. Credit: Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). In July of 2015, the world was stunned ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...