Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have discovered a new planet in our solar system. advertisement.

There is always the option to drop a small black hole into Pluto or shrink the solar system around it. Those may be tougher to accomplish, but our hosts are up to the challenge.

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.

Pluto is 100 miles smaller than the smallest planet but is not a major planet. Here's which planet in our solar system takes the title instead.

An illustrated diagram of the sun and the planets of the solar system. (Image credit: SCIEPRO via Getty Images) Researchers discovered the 12 potential massive objects around 60 AU from the sun ...

This is what Pluto does the only known object the solar system, where haze, not gas molecules, plays a key role in climate. Back in 2017, astronomer Xi Zhang from the University of California ...

Though Pluto has formally been considered a dwarf planet for almost two decades, it still has many lessons left for planetary scientists — including hints about how the solar system formed.

Learn about the Solar System with these interactive learning resources for KS2 Science students aged 7-11 from BBC Bitesize.