Spotlight shining on Pluto out in the cold

MEASUREMENTS by the spacecraft set to sweep past Pluto indicate the diameter of the dwarf planet is 2370 kilometres - about 80km bigger than previously thought.

LITTLE Pluto is a little bigger than anyone imagined.

AT the approach of NASA's historic flyby of Pluto, scientists announced on Monday that the New Horizons spacecraft has nailed the size of the faraway icy world.