Since its discovery in 1930, the dwarf planet has revolved beyond ... (Read more on Nadia Drake’s blog at National Geographic, No Place Like Home.) “The Pluto we imagined will just go away ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the past and future orbits of the planets. The first clue came from Pluto. The oddball of the solar system, it ...

Here's what to know about the short life of what was, for a single human lifetime, the solar system's smallest planet. Pluto ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. It took humans thousands of years to explore our own planet and centuries to comprehend our neighboring planets ...