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 ...

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Pluto is one of the most mysterious bodies in our solar system, in part because the dwarf planet is so far away from Earth. Here are five strange facts about the former ninth planet in our solar ...

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 ...

5. Pluto has a fluctuating atmosphere. Despite its vast distance from our Sun, Pluto still contains a thin and very weak atmosphere that expands and contracts as it moves closer and farther away from ...

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.

From its discovery on this day in 1930 until the 1990s, Pluto was riding high. It was generally considered the ninth and outermost planet orbiting the Sun. Sadly, facts began to intrude and Pluto ...

It was 24-year old Clyde Tombaugh, a research assistant, who first stumbled across Pluto in 1936. While predictions about its existence had been suggested some 20 years earlier, Tombaugh was the ...

Fascinating facts about Pluto’s planet status. In 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Photo Credit: NASA.

Pluto: Five Facts About The (Little) Planet. It was given its name by an 11-year-old British girl whose suggestion was passed on to the astronomers wondering what to call it.

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 ...