Back in the 1980’s, a now-defunct magazine called Science Digest held a contest to name Planet X — the still-undiscovered world that astronomers believed might lie out beyond Pluto. One of the best ...

Arizona lawmaker Rep. Justin Wilmeth has proposed the dwarf planet known as Pluto to be named the “official state planet” of Arizona. The Republican lawmaker has been bringing awareness to his ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WHNT) — Despite being “demoted” and renamed ...

Jeff Shultz, a former Paramount exec who was a key member of the management team that took Pluto TV from an early FAST ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poor Pluto has been demoted again. Sign up here. Calculations published on Thursday show the distant world that astronomers no longer deem a planet is not even the largest of ...

On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons (http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons) spacecraft will fly past Pluto, offering the first close-up look at that small, distant world and ...

While Pluto retrograde may get less airtime than the well-known Mercury retrograde, its invitations are just as influential, impactful, and deserving of our attention. Pluto retrograde is a backward ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on ...

We have to name stuff. If we didn't, we wouldn't know what we're talking about. When Pluto and its moons were essentially pinpoints, we got along with the bare bones. Not anymore. Every new solar ...