It’s been 18 years since Pluto’s celestial status was called ... (This is what a debate among astronomers talking about the term ‘dwarf planets’ was like.) Philip Metzger: We would say ...

Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification as a ...

(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun. The correct number is 3.7 billion miles.) What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague?

In a 2014 debate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ... astronomers voted to “demote” Pluto to dwarf planet status. These were astronomers at the meeting, not planetary scientists — a ...

The next major discovery did not occur until 1930, when American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh (while working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona) discovered Pluto and its largest moon Charon.

Instead, planets were loosely regarded as objects ... solar system later named the Kuiper Belt. This sparked debate about Pluto's status in the planetary canon, which came to a head at a 2006 ...

In a surprising twist that seems to transcend the usual boundaries of political discourse, legendary actor William Shatner has thrown his support behind former President Donald Trump over a cosmic ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you ...