Discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory, Pluto was demoted as a planet in 2006. Some want President Trump to take action ...

NASA chief Jared Issacman appears to be among those who support Pluto being reclassified as a planet. Could President Trump sign an executive order?

Pluto has not completed a single orbit since its 1930 discovery. With a 248-year journey around the Sun, the dwarf planet will finish its first full circuit in 2178.

Looking for magical places in Virginia that feel like storybooks? These 9 wonderful spots offer amazing beauty and ...

Sportswriting legend Terry Pluto is coming to Mentor Public Library, and he’s bringing more than 50 years of Guardians, Browns and Cavaliers stories with him. In addition to writing for The Akron ...

Pluto was supposed to be a frozen, lifeless relic drifting at the edge of the solar system. But when NASA’s New Horizons probe finally arrived, it found something far stranger. Beneath the nitrogen ...

Constant space launches are turning the atmosphere into a “crematorium” for satellites and other space debris. That was the warning from a trio of astronomers and atmospheric scientists in a new essay ...

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...

On February 19, 2025, a Falcon 9 rocket fell back toward Earth in an uncontrolled reentry, producing a massive fireball in the skies over Europe. On its way down, the rocket came near a lidar station ...

Laura Revell receives funding from the Marsden Fund and Rutherford Discovery Fellowships, administered from New Zealand Government funding by the Royal Society Te Apārangi. She is a member of the ...

When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacuglar fireball that streaked across Europe's skies, delighting stargazers and sending a team of ...