The problem with Pluto isn’t its planetary or nonplanetary status—it’s our insistence on declaring the world must be one or the other ...
Two decades ago, the International Astronomical Union—which defines and names celestial bodies—redefined the criteria for ...
As reports show interest from the White House, NASA seems to be on its way to arguing that Pluto should never have been ...
NASA chief Jared Isaacman has called for Pluto’s planet status to be reconsidered, reviving a debate over the 2006 reclassification and the rules that led to it.
A gradual dimming and brightening when a star passed behind it suggested the mini-Pluto was wrapped in a thin layer of air.
Pluto debate regarding its planethood has once again reignited. Now NASA is pushing to reclassify Pluto as a planet. Pluto ...
Isaacman said his agency is working on research that hopefully will convince the scientific community Pluto is a full-blown ...
If planets are, as many of your own geophysicists argue, bodies shaped by their own gravity and expressing internal processes ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has publicly backed restoring Pluto’s status as a planet, telling a Senate panel he is preparing to escalate the debate within the scientific community. His remarks ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Last week, I wrote a column about “What to do when you don’t know what to do.” I asked readers if they had ...