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

The universe is unimaginably vast, with over 2 trillion galaxies and still expanding, far beyond human exploration.

Pluto, known as one of the coldest, dead and barren ball of ice in space was previously considered a part of our Solar system as a planet but in 2006, it was declared as a dwarf planet. It is one of ...

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.

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 ...

Guides looks at 10 facts about our furthest family member. 1. Discovery It was 24-year old Clyde Tombaugh, a research assistant, who first stumbled across Pluto in 1936. While predictions about ...

After nine years of travelling, and a three billion mile journey, the New Horizons probe is getting close to its fly-by of Pluto. It's hoped it will take the clearest pictures ever of the surface ...

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 ...