For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spotlight is bright enough to thaw even Pluto. Well, not quite, but the tiny, icy world is getting front-page, prime-time attention for its first ...

NASA ’s New Horizon’s probe reached Pluto today. In honor of its arrival, here are nine facts about the former ninth planet. In 2006, the New Horizons probe was launched (Pluto was still ...

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Pluto is so far away from Earth that everything we know about it can be written down on a couple of 3 x 5 inch index cards. But Pluto will come into clearer focus in a few years' time, though, as ...

1. When Pluto was discovered in 1930, a competition was held to find a name for the new planet. Eleven-year-old Venetia Burney from Oxford chose Pluto because it was dark and far away, like the ...

From its discovery on this day in 1930 until the 1990s, Pluto was riding high. It was generally considered the ninth and outermost planet orbiting the Sun. Sadly, facts began to intrude and Pluto ...

Fascinating facts about Pluto’s planet status. In 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Photo Credit: NASA.

The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually has two tails: a dust tail and an ion tail. The dust tail is curved and the ...

Pluto is one of the most mysterious bodies in our solar system, in part because the dwarf planet is so far away from Earth. Here are five strange facts about the former ninth planet in our solar ...