NASA chief pushes to revisit Pluto’s planetary status, reigniting a long-running debate
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman signaled support for restoring Pluto’s status as a planet and suggested escalating the discussion within the scientific community, a move that has sparked division among researchers who question whether such a decision should come from NASA or require international consensus and the IAU, especially given Pluto-sized objects and the IAU criteria for planets.