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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But if Pluto is more than just a dwarf in your sky, here are 13 amazing facts about the little guy that will blow your mind: 1. When Pluto was discovered in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory ...

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 ...

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 ...

After other similar objects were found far away, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Photo Credit: NASA Pluto is small- about 1,400 miles wide- and very cold, too cold for life.

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 ...

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 ...

Here are 10 facts about Pluto and NASA’s exciting New Horizons mission, featuring some unique visualizations from data site FindTheData: 11. Pluto was still a planet when New Horizons was first ...

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 ...