"Pluto was found really close to where Lowell thought a planet should be, but it's also a great example of serendipity in science," Schindler said. "When Lowell was doing his work, there was an ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto turns out to have as much complexity as Mars or Earth, so much so that I ...

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But Pluto, a member of the sun’s own planetary family, and only 3½ billion miles away, has little personality for them. The outermost member of the solar system, it shines only feebly by ...

(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun. The correct number is 3.7 billion miles.) What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague?

If all goes well, we’ll see Pluto’s mysterious surface in unprecedented ... Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS ...

Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1930 and was considered our ninth planet until 2006. The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet ...

A Pluto pub crawl followed ... Sunday brought yet more events. KNAU science reporter Melissa Sevigny steered a great interview discussion and talk by Nimoy, which illuminated many aspects of ...

and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) — that will conduct the first-ever measurements of these critical pickup ions in the outer heliosphere and across the ...

Pluto has since then remained a topic of debate among the science community. In 2006, members of the International Astronomical Union changed the criteria of what can be described as ‘planets ...

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The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe. Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his ...