The post Scientists Might Just Have Discovered Another Dwarf Planet Sibling For Pluto first on TwistedSifter. In 2006, Ceres – located in our solar system’s main asteroid belt – was officially ...

What Pluto can teach us about planets and our solar system : Short Wave Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size ...

The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

Pluto's status has been a heated debate for decades with arguing over a dwarf planet classification. Here's what international standards say in 2023.

Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006. ... —Pluto may have an ice-spewing 'supervolcano' the size of Yellowstone, New Horizons data reveals.

Pluto was now a double planet: Pluto itself measures about 1,485 miles (2,390 kilometers) across, Charon some 700 miles ... The largest may surpass Pluto in size. Adolf Schaller.

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is almost half the size of Pluto. "I would consider Charon big enough to be a planet," Grundy said. "It has geology and all kinds of processes going on.

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.

Group of scientists published 5-year study arguing the current definition of planet was rushed, and should include Pluto, along with 100 other celestial bodies.

Then another “planet” was discovered. On March 28, 1802, German physician and astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered Pallas; this was rapidly followed by Juno in 1804 and Vesta in 1807.

Poor Pluto. On August 24, 2006 at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly the ninth planet was scrubbed only 76 years after its discovery. Even weirder is that it actually got ...

Some of us remember August 24, 2006, like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the exclusive “planets club.” I (Sara) was 11 years old, and my entire class began lunch break ...