Nevertheless, because it orbited the Sun like a planet, it was classified as a planet and named Pluto, after the god of outer darkness in Roman mythology. So things stood for 65 years. Although ...

Seuk Kim left behind a finance career to chase his dream of becoming a pilot. He took off one day in November with four dogs ...

Eleven-year-old Venetia Burney of England suggested the name Pluto because the dark, distant planet resembled the abode of the Greek god of the underworld. Pluto endured as a planet for more than ...

It would eventually be named Pluto after the Roman god of the underworld. Despite being smaller than several known moons, it was deemed large enough to be considered a planet. However, it soon ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

This was soon confirmed to be a planet (for a while, anyway), which was named Pluto by Venetia Burney Phair, an 11-year-old girl who wrote to the Lowell Observatory. For a time, Pluto sat on ...

an 11-year-old English girl named Venetia Burney casually proposed the name “Pluto,” after the Roman god of the underworld. It seemed an appropriately dark name for a planet on the dusky ...

Pluto, our planet of profound change and ultimate reckoning, has set up shop in Aquarius, and the energy of the dwarf daddy of death’s transit will have a weighty effect on all of us.

University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...

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