The name 'Pluto' was mythologically appropriate: the god Pluto was one of six surviving children of Saturn, and the others had already all been chosen as names of major or minor planets (his …

Apr 22, 2025 · Pluto is a complex and mysterious world with mountains, valleys, plains, craters, and glaciers. It is located in the distant Kuiper Belt. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long …

Nov 21, 2025 · Pluto, large, distant member of the solar system that formerly was regarded as the outermost and smallest planet. In 2006 a group of experts in the scientific community voted to …

Dec 3, 2024 · Pluto is one of the most mysterious and controversial celestial objects in the solar system. Find out what most mystifies scientists and stargazers about this dwarf planet.

Mar 27, 2025 · Pluto is a dwarf planet situated in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy bodies beyond Neptune’s orbit. Pluto is distinguished by its small size, irregular orbit, and …

Because it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, Pluto is considered a dwarf planet. It orbits in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper belt, a distant...

Feb 18, 2025 · For decades after the first eight planets were barnstormed, orbited, and landed upon by spacecraft from Earth, Pluto remained the only one of the solar system’s major worlds …

Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930 by the Lowell Observatory. For the 76 years between Pluto being discovered and the time it was reclassified as a dwarf planet it completed …

Originally the ninth planet from the Sun, Pluto was recategorized as a dwarf planet as it was discovered that it is one of numerous large bodies within the Kuiper Belt. Pluto is not visible …

In July of 2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sent back the first high resolution images of Pluto the world had ever seen. Everyone saw Pluto for what it was; an icy world of mountains, …