than any of the planets in the outer solar system. Nevertheless, because it orbited the Sun like a planet, it was classified as a planet and named Pluto, after the god of outer darkness in Roman ...

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth ...

Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...

For 76 years, Pluto was considered the ninth planet of our Solar System, 3.7 billion miles from ... criteria during its 2006 ...

Small, cold, and absurdly far away, Pluto has always ... the last of the classical solar system’s unexplored worlds. We’ll finally get to meet the former ninth planet face-to-face—to really ...

Take a look behind the scenes and find out how The Planets team brought the worlds of the Solar System to life ... reveals how you turn Iceland into Pluto, Jordan into Mars and even Lanzarote ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at ... to see them clearly (and in Pluto's case, you need a ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

FLAGSTAFF, Az. – Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating ...