Paramount-owned Pluto TV is launching a new channel dedicated to one of the best science fiction shows of the late 1990's and ...

Scientists have called for Pluto to be classified as a planet again following a new study into planetary science. Pluto was controversially relegated to the status of “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the ...

The landscapes of Pluto are starting to take shape. Bright and dark regions rotate in and out of view in new images from the New Horizons spacecraft, scheduled to buzz Pluto on July 14. A bright spot ...

A suspected subsurface ocean on Pluto might be old and deep. New analyses of images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest that the dwarf planet has had an underground ocean since shortly after ...

Astronomers recently discovered two more moons orbiting Pluto in addition to its already-discovered moon, Charon. Madeleine Brand talks with Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday ...

The science payload for NASA’s New Horizons mission completed its last major preparations for flight last week. The probe will be the first to visit Pluto and its moon, Charon. The compact New ...

The icy process may be present on other worlds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pluto is geologically alive. Bizarre geometric ...

"Pluto was found really close to where Lowell thought a planet should be, but it's also a great example of serendipity in science," Schindler said. "When Lowell was doing his work, there was an ...

In the hope of ending years of wrangling, a committee of astronomers and historians has proposed a new definition of the word "planet" that would expand at a stroke the family of planets from nine to ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

For a celestial object that may or may not be a planet, Pluto sure is getting a lot of attention these days. Just days after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that Pluto should be given back its ...

It's more than 3 billion miles from Earth and is only about 1,437 miles wide -- about half the width of the United States. Pluto was discovered 90 years ago on Feb. 18, 1930, by 24-year-old Clyde ...