Help the International Astronomical Union choose the names of distant exoplanets and stars

(The Milky Way: Photo Credit & Copyright: Serge Brunier)

For the first time ever, the International Astronomical Union is giving the public the opportunity to name planets found outside our solar system.

Neil deGrasse Tyson challenged to debate over Pluto

(Pluto and three of its Moons: Charon, Nix, and Hydra – Photo Credit: NASA)

Alan Stern, the principal investigator of NASA’s $728 million New Horizons mission to Pluto, has challenged famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to a debate over Pluto’s planetary standing.