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For generations Pluto stood as the mythic ninth planet until a scientific revolution shattered that legacy and transformed it ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Pluto was a planet in good standing for seventy-six years when in 2006, out of the blue, it was demoted and booted from our solar system’s family of planets. The stunning event – still hotly debated ...

This image made available by NASA on Friday, July 24, 2015 shows a combination of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft with enhanced colors to show differences in the composition and texture ...

In late August 2006, new discoveries upended a traditional, comfortable way of viewing our solar system: Scientists decided Pluto wasn’t a planet after all. Some space nerds like to mourn Pluto’s loss ...

On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted to strictly define a planet, which ultimately downgraded Pluto from the ninth planet from the sun to a dwarf planet — causing controversy ...

Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet over 10 years ago, but it's something that still seems so damn unfair. How do you take away its planet status after 76 years? On the other hand, science is ...

Back when most of us were in elementary school, we were taught that our solar system has nine planets. Then in August 2006, our worlds were turned upside down when astronomy’s official governing body ...