CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Little Pluto is a little bigger than anyone imagined. On the eve of NASA's historic flyby of Pluto, scientists announced the New Horizons spacecraft has ...

February 18, 1930, is a truly historic day for science, as this was the day Pluto was officially discovered by Clyde W Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory. This distant icy world is one of the most ...

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 ...

Pluto is the furthest from the Sun Credit: Getty How big is Pluto? Pluto is about one-sixth the width of Earth, at just 1,420 miles in diameter.

Scientists announced the discovery of a new moon around Pluto today (July 11), bringing the dwarf planet's number of known satellites to five.

11 Pluto facts you need to knowWhen New Horizons was strapped on an Atlas V rocket and blasted off into space at over 36,000 miles per hour, it set the record as the fastest launch in history ...

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the smallest of the nine classical planets and the largest discovered ...

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 visit by a ...

WASHINGTON, July 14, 2015 (AFP) - On Tuesday, a Nasa spacecraft will become the first to fly past Pluto, and will send back images in unprecedented detail. Here are some key facts about Pluto: 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pluto is the furthest from the Sun Credit: Getty How big is Pluto? Pluto is about one-sixth the width of Earth, at just 1,420 miles in diameter.