In this series of old family photos, follow the trajectory of my father's remarkable career, which, in its way, began and ended at Pluto. Or will end, 'round about the year 2015.—Alden Tombaugh ...

“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, discovered in 1930 ... The machine involved taking pairs of photos of the evening sky several nights apart and then using a special viewer to rapidly switch between the two.

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status ... Kansas where he spent his days working the earth. At just 23 years old, Tombaugh sent his drawings, unsolicited, to several institutions ...

Although previous images showed that something was happening ... astronomers thought Pluto was too old to have retained enough heat energy to have these processes occurring. It might mean all ...

Gender: Male Age: 1 year 7 months Weight: 51 pounds Species: Dog Breed: Rhodesian Ridgeback – Brown Orphaned Since: April 9 ...

One of the faint points of light had shifted a few millimeters between images of the ... Eleven-year-old Venetia Burney Phair later suggested the name Pluto, inspired by the Roman god of the ...

"These images show that Pluto and Charon are truly complex worlds ... molecular make up of the ice on Pluto and Charon and how old some of their surface features (like craters) are.