One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

Pluto is situated in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune. Its distance from Earth varies from about 4.67 to 7.4 billion miles.

Pluto's orbit: Quick facts Pluto's rotation is retrograde compared to the solar systems' other worlds; it spins backward, from east to west. Average distance from the sun: 3,670,050,000 miles ...

Facts about NASA's New Horizons mission ... NASA's New Horizons became the first spacecraft to visit dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015. The far-traveling spacecraft also visited a distant Kuiper ...

So far we have received about half of the 50 gigabits of data it collected while passing Pluto. Using what they have so far scientists are learning more about Pluto and its moons every day.

Here are the five most surprising things discovered by the deep-space instrument. After almost a decade in space, the New Horizons probe's close encounter with Pluto lasted just six days as it ...

"Now, that's no kind of behavior for a planet. What is that about? It's one of the odd things about Pluto that no other planet shares. "I think Pluto is happier" in its current classification ...