How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

Pluto's demotion was partially caused by us getting better at spotting planets (or "dwarf planets," if you prefer). In the early 2000s, astronomers identified Haumea, Eris, Makemake, and other ...

At first, the idea was to up the number of planets in the solar system to 12, seeing Pluto and its moon Charon recognised as a twin planet. Ceres and Eres would also be granted entry to the ...

Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto, it does celebrate the joy of observing planets. Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of the ...

Unlike other planets that have a more or less circular, equatorial orbit around the sun, Pluto’s is sharply inclined and highly elliptical, with a perihelion, or close approach to the sun, of ...

Pluto, therefore, is not the gravitationally dominant object in its neighborhood — and thus, not a planet, according to the new definition. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now ...

Pluto, our petite power planet of primordial urges, transformation through trauma, ID energy and the subconscious mind, is going retrograde in Aquarius from May 4th to October 13th.

On the other hand, if you’re nostalgic (and a tad antiestablishment), there are still nine now, but then, to be fair, you’d have to include the so-called dwarf planets, in which case there may ...

LYRA: Pluto holds many clues to understand how planets in general form. So as a scientist who studies how planets form, for me, Pluto is a brick that helps me understand the building.

An artist's rendition of the eight planets in our solar system. The planets are depicted closer together than they really are. NASA / JPL Nearly two decades after Pluto got kicked out of the ...

The author’s book. Andrea Frazetta. We discovered them on asteroids and the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto, and these are only a few examples. Much farther away still, nearly 200 hundred types of ...