Advertisement From Earth to Pluto, an amazing, 3.6 billion-mile journey New photos of Pluto will be released this afternoon Updated: 5:04 PM EDT Jul 15, 2015 Editorial Standards ⓘ Matt Moore ...

Pluto Time is a special moment of interplanetary kinship that happens twice daily, everywhere around the world. It’s that instant just before dawn and after sunset, when the sky on Earth is the ...

Pluto is 3.6 billion miles from the sun — 40 times the distance from Earth to the sun — and a single year takes 248 Earth years.

New data from the James Webb telescope reveals that Pluto's strange atmospheric haze controls its climate, surprising ...

Wind could create the dunes out of fine particles once they’re airborne. And since Pluto’s surface pressure is 100,000 times lower than Earth’s, those grains don’t need as much of a lift.

LAUREL, Md. – For the first time in its 4-billion-year life, Pluto got a visitor from Earth. Prompting wild applause and hugs at the Mission Operations Center here, the spacecraft sent signals ...

Pluto Time is a moment on Earth when the illumination matches that of high noon on Pluto. Since Pluto is 3 billion miles away, it gets much less sunlight than we do here on the Blue Marble.

Pluto and its moon, Charon, are vastly different despite forming at the same time and place. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Fortunately, today’s data dump is just the beginning.

By Earth’s standards, you could hardly imagine a stranger world than frigid, tiny Pluto. It resides in the far corner of the solar system at an average of about 4 billion miles from the sun.

In July 2015, it finally reached its destination -- Pluto and its moon Charon, which sparked celebration at APL's headquarters in Laurel. "Oh it's just been incredible," Dr. Hal Weaver told WJZ.