For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the ...
Scientists decided one way, but some states still see Pluto as a planet. So I asked the next generation their opinion.
Pluto's 2006 status change from planet to dwarf planet is still a sore subject for many, including a fourth grader in Tampa, ...
The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...
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Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated his support for President Trump to take action to ...
This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...
Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto, it does celebrate the joy of observing planets. Viewers who watch the show may wonder what happened to Pluto in 2006 and whether any of the ...