Arizona – and Flagstaff specifically – has long considered itself the home of Pluto. After all, Percival Lowell, the namesake of the state's most prominent observatory, was not only one of the first ...
An image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015. The planet was first discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, who graduated from high school in rural Kansas and went on to earn his ...
February 18 marks the discovery of Pluto by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. The discovery reshaped the understanding of the solar system, as Pluto was long considered the ninth planet until the ...