Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation filled with fun, entertaining animations that also help you learn about the solar system, and the universe. If you like space animations and comedy - then th ...

High-tech telescopes are revealing new clues about the solar system's outermost ... may have the data necessary to prove Pluto and other large orbiting balls deserve to be planets.

The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

"For example, Saturn has 95 times more mass than Earth, but it is the least dense planet in the solar ... a ball on Saturn is nothing special. The truly remarkable throw happens on Pluto, the ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

This episode, he also lays out his case for Pluto — and many other objects in the solar system — to be considered a planet.

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

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. Dead Planets ...

song, Interplanet Janet. Upon the discovery of its existence in 1930, Pluto enjoyed decades of special status as one of the solar system's planets. Then, in the summer of 2006, Pluto was demoted.

Pluto isn’t a planet — but it gives us clues for how the solar system formed This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe.