Shakespeare’s Juliet was being decidedly unscientific when she proclaimed, “What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” In science, classifications – the ...

It's been 20 years since Pluto was declassified as the ninth planet in our solar system, and many people wish it had never lost its status. A recent comment from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...

NASA chief Jared Isaacman’s call to restore Pluto’s planetary status has reignited a long-running scientific debate over whether the icy world was unfairly demoted from the solar system’s official ...

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of darkness; after all, Pluto is the Roman equivalent of the Greek God Hades.

When New Horizons drifted past Pluto in July 2015, it gave us our first glimpse of the icy little world larger than a few pixels. The historic flyby revealed a particularly spectacular heart-shaped ...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing ...

Labroots recently explored Saturn’s sponge-like moon, Hyperion, with its deep craters and non-spherical shape. This moon is an example of how the Universe and the laws of astrophysics work in both ...

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Small, cold, and absurdly far away, Pluto has always been selfish with its secrets. Since its discovery in 1930, the dwarf ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists —... Pluto isn't a planet — but it gives us clues for how the ...