CLEVELAND - Following released images of Pluto taken during the New Horizons flyby, NASA today released an animation of the distant planetoid's surface. The animation is based on images that were then ...

This close up look at Pluto and Charon, taken as part of the mission's latest optical navigation ("OpNav") campaign from Jan. 25-31, 2015, comes from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on ...

Since Pluto is located so far from the sun, it takes around 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit the sun. Pluto's orbit around the sun is not only a very long journey, it's also elliptical, resembling a ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as the solar system's eight planets; and its orbit is both highly elliptical ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier, as captured by the New Horizons spacecraftJPL/NASA Pluto will mark a birthday of sorts on March 23, 2178. No one is likely to be there to celebrate it, of course.

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