
Pluto By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · Pluto was once our solar system's ninth planet, but has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. It's located in the Kuiper Belt.
In Depth | Our Solar System – NASA Solar System Exploration
Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; …
In Depth | Kuiper Belt – NASA Solar System Exploration
Pluto's Place in the Kuiper Belt In 1930, Pluto became the first Kuiper Belt object to be discovered. It was found at a time before astronomers had reason to expect a large population of icy worlds …
In March 2004, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet-like transneptunian object orbiting the Sun at an extreme distance, in one of the coldest known regions of our solar system.
Planet Compare – NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
Design a scale model Solar System for public display. Describe the characteristics of the Solar System that make construc-tion of a good scale model so dificult.
In Depth | Ganymede – NASA Solar System Exploration
Not only is it the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than the planet Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, but NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for an underground …
Pluto 3D Model – NASA Solar System Exploration
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RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 21, 2025 · NASA Solar System Exploration Our Galactic Neighborhood Solar System Planets Moons Asteroids, Comets & Meteors
In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
Pluto's large moon Charon is about half the size of Pluto. Like Earth's Moon, Charon may have formed from debris resulting from an early collision of an impactor with Pluto.