This space wallpaper is an orbit diagram for the outer solar system ... The Kuiper Belt (including Pluto) is shown by the dotted light blue region just beyond the giant planets.

Looking at a solar system diagram on paper, it appears the Pluto and Neptune orbits intersect. Of course, this is not the case. The orbits appear to intersect only because it’s a flat projection ...

This diagram shows the path of a faint star during ... Surprisingly, they find it to be almost exactly the same size as Pluto and that it has a very reflective surface. This artist's impression ...

Of the five dwarf planets in the Solar System – including Eris, Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea – Pluto is easily the best-known due to its brief categorization as a regular planet. Long before it ...

Jay Bennett - Former associate web editor, science. An artist's rendering of the Pluto system seen from the surface of one of its moons. NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI) The dwarf planet Pluto and ...

At its closest, the dwarf planet orbits at nearly 45 AU, or 45 times the distance from Earth to the sun — a similar distance as its fellow dwarf planet Pluto. Based on the newfound object's ...

After nine years and three billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto and its five moons early Tuesday morning. The Pluto system is tipped on its side, like a target facing ...

Researchers discovered the 12 potential massive objects around 60 AU from the sun while searching for potential new targets for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft — the probe that studied Pluto and ...

Our understanding of the solar system is a work in progress. Pluto’s demotion to a dwarf planet was just one of many revisions—in recent decades astronomers have cataloged new dwarfs ...