Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification as a planet. Shatner playfully suggested Musk persuade the President via ...

The humorous exchange between Musk and Shatner also reignited the long-standing debate about Pluto’s planetary status. Pluto, discovered in 1930, was originally classified as the ninth planet of ...

Pluto has never been much of a planet — small, wired orbit, not much atmosphere — and questions about its status have been ... called planets without any debate." Levy, science editor for ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

It's an evocative idea that has long bedevilled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

But Pluto turned out to be too tiny -- it is smaller than the Moon -- and was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006. There are now four other officially recognised dwarf planets, and Cheng ...

Legendary actor William Shatner wants President Trump to restore Pluto to greatness as scientists claim to have found a “new” ninth planet. “So there’s a 10th planet that was found in our ...

A legendary actor has taken a surprising turn to the right and is calling on President Trump to make Pluto great again.

The TNO is potentially large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, the same category as the much more well-known Pluto. The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system ...