Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Scientists have identified a new minor planet beyond Pluto, enhancing our knowledge of the solar system's outer boundaries. The celestial body, designated as 2017 OF201, ranks among the largest ...

Scientists have detected methane gas glowing faintly above Makemake, an icy dwarf planet smaller and farther than Pluto in space. Until now, Pluto was the only object that far out in the solar system ...

(CNN) — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have ...

She went on to explain that in 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet, "a type of planet that isn't big enough to clear its orbit." She talked about the Kuiper belt, a doughnut-shaped ring ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

Pluto may be a “dwarf” planet, but it is still a planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union, responding to the discovery of several Pluto-like objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, ...

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 ...