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 ...

Rather than a vast ocean, Pluto’s heart might be hiding a huge, heavy treasure. Computer simulations suggest that an object about 730 kilometers wide, slightly larger than the asteroid Vesta, could ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...

New research suggests that Pluto may have acquired its most massive moon, Charon, through an ancient grazing impact, which the science team refers to as a “kiss and capture”. The study uses computer ...

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, ...