The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

Get ready for a parade of planets this winter. During the month of January, sky gazers will be able to see four planets in one view — and come February, the parade will only expand. NASA says ...

They also checked to see if any of those dips in light curves might have been caused by second planets orbiting the same star but came up empty-handed. While seven additional candidate exoplanets ...

Stargazers will have another chance to spot a rare and beautiful “planetary procession” tonight with six planets aligned in the night sky. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are ...

You will be able to see seven planets in the sky, and the eighth if you look down (that will be Earth, under your feet). Sorry to Pluto, but it got booted out of the planets club in 2006 ...