In 1930, American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered a small, rocky object at the edge of our solar system. Pluto was a bit of an oddball with a strange orbit and size that didn't quite fit, but ...

The news was even more bittersweet for fans of the beloved Walt Disney dog Pluto, named after the just-discovered planet in 1930. Disney spokesman Donn Walker insisted Mickey Mouse’s favorite ...

That dog, of course, was Pluto. Now, some 31,714 days after Walt Disney first laid eyes on the now-dwarf planet (and 31,192 days after the rest of humanity found out), we finally see what he saw ...

Hi! My name is Alice, and I'm a Pluto truther. While some people obsess over Roswell and the moon landing, I'm convinced Pluto (the dog, not the planet) is fully capable of standing on two legs ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson blames the backlash he has received for recognizing Pluto as a dwarf — and not a full-fledged — planet on the popularity of the Disney dog with the same name ...

Twitter seems to think that one of the biggest discoveries from NASA’s Pluto photos is the presence of Pluto himself — the dog, that is. A lighter patch on the planet happens to be in the ...

More than 15 years after Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet, the debate, even among scientists, continues. By Kenneth Chang Who doesn’t love Pluto? It shares a name with the Roman god of the ...

Also, in 2006, Pluto was officially relegated to the status of “dwarf planet,” a designation it shares with Charon and which – let’s be honest – just sounds less prestigious. Although he lived to be ...

Pluto just gets dog food in his bowl, whereas Goofy can ask for Oysters Rockefeller and a fine Sancerre. So I posed the question on Facebook and Twitter, and got some interesting responses.

What matters in the end isn’t whether Pluto is a planet or whether there are eight continents or whether a hot dog is a sandwich—what matters is that we consider our world carefully.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a bill making Pluto the official state planet. ... Disney renamed Mickey's pet dog Pluto. But 76 years later, it all came crashing down.

For comparison, Pluto is about magnitude 14 now, and its largest moon, Charon, is magnitude 17. So unless he has some serious glass, Pluto the dog will really strain to see New Horizons fly past.