The distance from Earth to Pluto is 4.67 billion miles. The average passenger aircraft travels at 575 miles per hour. That means it would take more than 8 million hours to reach the planet ...
The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...
While a quick trip to Pluto would be a technological milestone, the fastest man-made object ever, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, can only travel about 400,000 miles per hour, or 0.06% the speed of ...
Charon is the largest among the five peculiar moons of Pluto. It was studied briefly as ... Telescope (JWST), discovering intriguing new facts about the surface chemistry of this distant moon.