The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

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 ...

Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his sketches of the night sky to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1929. More than anything, he just wanted to get off the ...

The annual event celebrates the discovery of the little planet with a big heart and other scientific advances at Flagstaff, ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...

Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...

On February 18, 2007, the Samjhauta Express train carrying hundreds of Indians and Pakistanis across the border was bombed by ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...