It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

Pluto once held its place proudly as the ninth planet in our solar system,a distant, icy world on the edge of the cosmic frontier. But in 2006, everything changed. This in-depth explainer unpacks the ...

Pluto is the furthest from the Sun Credit: Getty How big is Pluto? Pluto is about one-sixth the width of Earth, at just 1,420 miles in diameter.

New Horizons found that the dwarf planet is bigger than previously thought, but Pluto is still tiny — about two-thirds as big as Earth's moon.

In a significant breakthrough, astronomers have detected a Pluto-like planet situated far beyond the known boundaries of the solar system. Identified as 2017 OF201, the icy celestial body may ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

How big is the universe? Discover what scientists have uncovered beyond the dwarf planet Pluto TOI Science Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / May 27, 2025, 11:38 IST ...

But Charon was half the size of Pluto itself, so big that the Pluto-Charon combination are sometimes referred to as a double planet, according to NASA.

In 2006, astronomers ‘demoted’ Pluto from a major planet in the solar system to a dwarf planet. But was Pluto snubbed? Our experts answer.

Pluto is the furthest from the Sun Credit: Getty How big is Pluto? Pluto is about one-sixth the width of Earth, at just 1,420 miles in diameter.