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 ...

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But how big is it? Here's all you need to know... Pluto is about one-sixth the width of Earth, at just 1,420 miles in diameter. It is far smaller even than Earth’s moon, and 30 times smaller ...

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 ...

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 ...

For now, though, here are the five strangest facts about Pluto, the former ninth planet in our solar system: 1. Pluto used to be giant When Pluto was discovered (by American Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here are a few fun facts about the new moon: Its name is a mouthful The fifth Pluto moon has been provisionally named S/2012 (134340) 1, but it's unlikely anyone other than astronomers will ever ...

NASA’s iconic image of Pluto, showing its heart-like pattern, captured by the New Horizons flyby in 2015. | NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Until 2015, Pluto, the former ninth planet of the classical solar ...