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 ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the ... Marilyn Perkins is the content manager at Live Science. She is a science writer and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California.

These short films are taken from the BBC series Blue Planet Live. Suitable for: Science at KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 2nd level in Scotland. Watch again: Blue Planet - Live ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first detailed images of the dwarf planet. After nine years and 3 ...