For 76 years, generations of students learned that our solar system had nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Now, in 2026, some still can't get over ...

Several decades ago, we thought the solar system had nine planets. Then Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. And then astronomers realized the solar system is full of dwarf planets. Recent ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Thousands of music fans are expected in downtown Raleigh this weekend as the Hopscotch Music Festival returns, providing an economic boost for local businesses while offering ...

It's that time of year again. On September 10, the Hopscotch Music Festival returns to downtown Raleigh, bringing live music from around the world to the City of Oaks. This year for the first time, ...

Named for the ancient Greek god who presides over the afterlife, Pluto is now mostly known as the planet that lost its planethood 20 years ago. In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union, an ...

Those who supported Pluto’s demotion included Neil DeGrasse Tyson NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Image 20 years ago, news broke that Pluto had ...

Picture a star, about half the sun’s mass shining with a dim red light. Lumbering around it on a 5,000-year orbit is a huge orb called a brown dwarf, which is much heavier than a planet but still not ...

Monday marks 20 years since Pluto was considered a full-fledged planet in our solar system. For some, the sting of that cosmic demotion has never gone away. “When I give public talks and I just put up ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Hopscotch Music Festival will return to downtown Raleigh in September. Organizers announced the lineup, including headliners Soccer ...

Astronomers confirmed a major milestone on Thursday in the most ambitious effort ever mounted to determine whether rocky planets around the galaxy's most common type of star can hold onto an ...