How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Today, NASA released the first ever close-up photographs of Pluto. The images showed icy mountains and a mysterious pale patch shaped like a heart. Judy Woodruff speaks to science correspondent ...

What Pluto can teach us about planets and our solar system : Short Wave Pluto hasn't been a planet for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, scientists discovered several objects of a similar size ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

Not until 1978 did astronomers detect its Texas-size moon Charon, about half the size of Pluto itself (even now no one is sure exactly how big Pluto is, but the estimated diameter is 1,430 miles ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing collision. ... "It's half Pluto's size and 12% of its mass, ...

Astronomers believe a planetary body collided with Pluto early in its history to create a gigantic heart-shaped feature on the dwarf planet. ... (700 kilometers) in diameter, ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ...