In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One year on the distant ice planet is 248 Earth years, and one day is 153 ...
When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it surprised a lot of people, including some scientists. Even many years later, some ...
Although previous images showed that something was happening on Pluto, with an average temperature of -240C, many people assumed it was a cold and relatively dead world. That was until NASA's 'New ...
From afar, Pluto once seemed boring and dead. After all, the dwarf planet is only two-thirds the size of our moon and resides more than 30 times farther out from the sun than does Earth.
Pluto “tests” the mettle of its children and casts out and cuts loose what holds them back. Rarely gentle but always necessary is the name of the game here, and we can’t see what will be ...
Things have been a mess since Pluto's demotion. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted on the definition of a planet. Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria and was demoted ...