We now know Pluto much better, thanks to NASA's New Horizons mission, leaving CNET's Eric Mack to wonder how the former planet compares ... how does it compare to Earth? If we're really honest ...

When compared with past images, pictures of Pluto taken by the Hubble Space ... than 49 times as far out from the sun as Earth. Since the dwarf planet's orbit is so eccentric, or far from circular ...

Ceres is the closest dwarf planet to Earth and the largest ... miles (413 million km), on average, compared with 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion km) for Pluto. Who discovered Ceres?

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar ... That alone would make Pluto seem unusual compared to Earth, but that's not all. Pluto also spins backwards.

web series Other Space, wants world astronomers to reconsider their 2006 decision to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet ... Would Earth still be a significant object when compared to everything ...

We used to believe there were nine until Pluto was reclassified to a dwarf planet. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have cleared their orbits, so there is no risk ...

Distant starlight has given astronomers the best look yet at a distant icy sibling of Pluto ... Earth and the sun. [Makemake's Missing Atmosphere (Video)] Makemake is a type of icy dwarf planet ...

Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. It had been downgraded to the status of a dwarf planet. Now, as the world celebrates the history-making New Horizons Pluto flyby successfully ...

Our solar system family is getting larger with the discovery of a new dwarf planet found orbiting beyond Pluto. This new dwarf planet doesn't have a fancy name like the major planets of the solar ...

Still, Ceres remains a dwarf planet. Perhaps as it should, given Pluto's relegation to dwarf ... Plus, it would mean an interesting update for Earth: Just like there are binary stars, Lyra says ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth ... Pluto does not meet the third criteria because it is not gravitationally dominant, the Library of Congress reports. This means Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet ...

Pluto has become a beloved object in our solar system ever since the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reclassified it from a planet to a dwarf planet ... that of the Earth’s orbit.