University of Regina provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. University of Regina provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages ...

Everything you know about Pluto is probably wrong. Just ask a kid. Kids are much more up-to-date with knowledge about space and dinosaurs and other cool stuff we grown-ups haven’t read about in … well ...

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 ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined a dwarf planet in 2006 as a celestial body that orbits the Sun, is round in shape, but has not cleared its orbital neighborhood of objects of ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Many Americans grew up with this as the definitive planetary lineup and created clever mnemonic devices to memorize them in ...

The debate over Pluto’s planetary status has been ongoing since its reclassification as a “dwarf planet” in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Recent discussions and new scientific ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Samantha Lawler, Assistant professor, Astronomy, ...

Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size to Pluto. So, during the summer of 2006, members of the International ...