Here's what to know about the short life of what was, for a single human lifetime, the solar system's smallest planet. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary ...

Mercury will join Pluto in an empowering and revelatory sextile, which could lead to powerful breakthroughs in communication ...

“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 ...

Pluto is too far away from Earth to be seen with ... Did comets kick start life on Earth? documentDid comets kick start life on Earth? Life, as we know it, cannot exist without water and organic ...

Given other recent research, they say their work could even increase the likelihood of life beneath Pluto's surface. The researchers analyzed photographs of a region dominated by two large mounds ...

Pluto will mark a birthday of sorts on March ... making it an improbable—but not impossible—home for extraterrestrial life. “New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science ...

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 ...