9 Facts About Pluto You Need to Know. 4 minute read. By Jacob Koffler. July 14, 2015 1:25 PM EDT. W ith discoveries about Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons mission rolling in, here are nine of the ...

Pluto once held its place proudly as the ninth planet in our solar system,a distant, icy world on the edge of the cosmic frontier. But in 2006, everything changed. This in-depth explainer unpacks the ...

Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in the solar system, it was demoted in 2006 to dwarf planet status. We explore this icy body in more detail here.

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 ...

Pluto is far too cold to sustain life as its temperatures are between -228 and -238 C. The icy planet is one of the coldest places in the solar system so water which is vital for life as we know ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 nailed the size of ...

On Tuesday, NASA's New Horizon's space ship will get its closest look at Pluto after a nine and a half year trek. That's a 4.7 billion kilometre drive. Give or take. Here's a list of six cool ...

IT has a surface temperature of minus 225 degrees Celsius and was once the ninth and most distant planet from the Sun. But how big is it? Here’s all you need to know… How big is Pluto? … ...