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WEBVTT TAKING ON THE GIANTS. HOPEFULLY THEY WIN. IT’S BEEN A LITTLE OVER A DECADE SINCE PLUTO WAS DOWNGRADED FROM A PLANET TO A DWARF PLANET. THIS MORNING, I’M JOINED BY CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHOR STEF ...

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined a dwarf planet in 2006 as a celestial body that orbits the Sun, is round in shape, but has not cleared its orbital neighborhood of objects of ...

Everything you know about Pluto is probably wrong. Just ask a kid. Kids are much more up-to-date with knowledge about space and dinosaurs and other cool stuff we grown-ups haven’t read about in … well ...

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 ...

For such a small member of the solar system, about which relatively little is known, Pluto has an impressive following. When the news that the ninth planet had been stripped of its planethood got out, ...

“Pluto, whether it’s a planet or not, is always going to be welcome at Griffith Observatory,” he said. In fact, Pluto has proved over the seven decades since its discovery to be one of the most ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...