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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For now, though, here are the five strangest facts about the former ninth planet in our solar system. When Pluto was discovered (by American Clyde Tombaugh in 1930), it was initially believed to ...

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 ...

So far we have received about half of the 50 gigabits of data it collected while passing Pluto. Using what they have so far scientists are learning more about Pluto and its moons every day.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...