Pluto takes 248 years to complete one orbit around the Sun, and in 2178 it will return to the point it occupied when it was ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt revealed thousands of icy objects near Pluto, challenging its status as a planet. After the discovery of Eris, astronomers formally redefined “planet” in 2006, leading ...

Scientists have recently unveiled a remarkable discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system: a space fossil located 4 billion miles past Pluto, covered in unidentified organic molecules. This ...

As astronomers continue discovering unusual worlds beyond our solar system, many say the question that divided scientists in ...

Arizona – and Flagstaff specifically – has long considered itself the home of Pluto. After all, Percival Lowell, the namesake of the state's most prominent observatory, was not only one of the first ...

February 18 marks the discovery of Pluto by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. The discovery reshaped the understanding of the solar system, as Pluto was long considered the ninth planet until the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guests visting the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona during the I Heart Pluto Festival gaze at celestial objects from the ...

For generations of schoolchildren, the solar system had nine planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. The main reason for Pluto's demotion is that it's not able to "clear its orbit of debris." Other ...