NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...
An amateur astronomer discovered Pluto 95 years ago today. The former planet will complete an orbit in another 153 years.
On February 18, 1930, the American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto! Before he discovered Pluto, another astronomer named Percival Lowell had spent over a decade trying to find it. He had ...