Until 2015, Pluto, the former ninth planet of the classical solar system, was largely a mystery—a tiny speck 3.6 billion miles from the sun. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the ...

Until 2015, Pluto, the former ninth planet of the classical solar system, was largely a mystery—a tiny speck 3.6 billion miles from the sun. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrived at the ...

With discoveries about Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons mission rolling in, here are nine of the most interesting facts about the former planet. 1. Pluto was first discovered by a young research ...

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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The year that Pluto was demoted, the American Dialect Society voted ‘plutoed’ as its word of the year. They defined it as ‘to demote or devalue someone or something’. 13.

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 ...

How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.

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 ...

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 ...

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.