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The five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union are Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake—and these are pictured with 2017 OF201 in a telescope image. Dwarf planets: NASA / ...

Pluto will complete its first orbit since 1930 in 2178, a historic 248-year space journey that spans generations of humans.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope looks for the most distant galaxies ever seen, astronomers have discovered something new in our very own solar system. Researchers from the U.S. and Canada have ...