Using new readings from NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected previously unknown chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The powerful space ...

In this except from "Space Camp," a special series from NPR science podcast Short Wave, host Regina Barber delves into Pluto's demotion from planet to dwarf planet.

The astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Arizona are showing Pluto some love on the 95th anniversary of its discovery, regardless of whether we call it a planet or not.

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff in 1930. Planet X, as it was called, was quickly renamed Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld.

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