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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later
On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...
What Makes Pluto So Intriguing
Pluto will mark a birthday of sorts on March 23, 2178. No one is likely to be there to celebrate it, of course. Even if ...
The tiny planet-not-planet that could: Pluto was discovered 95 years ago today
Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...
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7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what's that mean for science?
In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...
Happy 95th birthday Pluto
An amateur astronomer discovered Pluto 95 years ago today. The former planet will complete an orbit in another 153 years.
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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
It must have enough mass to draw itself into a round shape ... the committee declared that Pluto no longer qualified as a planet because of its position in the cluttered Kuiper Belt, where ...
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The Discovery of Pluto: A not quite 8th planet
They did, and the discovery of Planet X was announced on March 13, 1930. An 11-year-old English schoolgirl, Venetia Burney, suggested the name Pluto, the god of the underworld. Tombaugh’s ...