We have to name stuff. If we didn't, we wouldn't know what we're talking about. When Pluto and its moons were essentially pinpoints, we got along with the bare bones. Not anymore. Every new solar ...

Back in the 1980’s, a now-defunct magazine called Science Digest held a contest to name Planet X — the still-undiscovered world that astronomers believed might lie out beyond Pluto. One of the best ...

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Astronomers recently discovered two previously unknown moons orbiting Pluto, bringing its total up to five. How this supposed non-planet can have so many moons is beyond me, but whatever. Anyway, the ...

On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons (http://www.nasa.gov/newhorizons) spacecraft will fly past Pluto, offering the first close-up look at that small, distant world and ...

Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier, as captured by the New Horizons spacecraftJPL/NASA Pluto will mark a birthday of sorts on March 23, 2178. No one is likely to be there to celebrate it, of course.

Venetia Burney Phair, 90, who as a child in England was credited with providing the name for Pluto, long regarded as the ninth planet, died April 30 at her home in Epsom, a town south of London. No ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – I almost didn’t write about this because I’m tired of the topic. I also know that it’s picking at a scab of an old wound for some fans. I’m talking about the Indians/Guardians name ...