Poor Pluto. On August 24, 2006 at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly the ninth planet was scrubbed only 76 years after its discovery. Even weirder is that it actually got voted ...

Poor Pluto. Poor misunderstood, maligned, underrated, way-out-there Pluto. Poor eccentric little rubber ball. Is it a planet? A comet? An asteroid? Fifty-seven years old and no one—not even its ...

This week's column is a pity party that points you to a place where you won't see a planet that isn't. Stripped of its planetary status by those snotty dweebs at the International Astronomical Union, ...

The same group that demoted Pluto from planet to dwarf two years ago has decided to honor it by giving its name to potentially thousands of similar objects at the edge of our solar system. The ...

Poor Pluto. One week it's happily orbiting the sun in some odd, not quite circular fashion. The next, it's told to turn in the proverbial torch and was officially booted from the galactic island.

In 2006, astronomers gathered in Prague to consider a very basic question: How many planets are in our solar system? Was it nine, or was it actually eight, or perhaps as many as 12? By the end of the ...