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.

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 wants to restore Pluto to its former glory. On Tuesday (April 28), the US space agency chief said he is very much in the camp of ‘make Pluto a planet again.’ But experts say ...

The NASA administrator’s latest remarks in support of reexamining Pluto’s status come 20 years after the orb was downgraded to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union ...

Back in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) shocked the world by denying Pluto its planetary status.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur and former astronaut, is once again pushing for a planetary promotion. Isaacman’s focus revolves around the far-off icy world of Pluto, ...

Donald Trump has a hang-up about Pluto. As far back as 2019, his appointed NASA administrator was making noise about reclassifying it as a planet, a status it lost when in 2006 the International ...

The head of NASA says maybe Pluto is a planet after all. He is wrong because Pluto is part of the rest of the solar system ...

Nasa may revisit one of outer space’s thorniest questions ...

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It's been 20 years since Pluto lost its status as the ninth planet of the solar system, but we still can't seem to let it go. Reading time 3 minutes Pluto remains one of the great generational divides ...

If confirmed, the rock would become just the second world past Neptune in our solar system to host an atmosphere.