Ninety years ago today, Clyde Tombaugh, a young astronomer working at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, discovered Pluto. In doing so he unknowingly opened the door to the vast “third zone” of ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined what constitutes a planet, leading to Pluto’s ...

Madrid, Jun 4 (EFE).Madrid, Jun 4 (EFE). — Just weeks before NASA’s New Horizons probe flies by Pluto, a study of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope has yielded new knowledge about the ...

AN EAST Lancashire scientist was today getting to grips with a raft of new data after a space probe ‘phoned home’. Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto, ...

Chris Arridge receives funding from the the Royal Society and Science and Technology Facilities Council. He also chairs the Solar System Advisory Panel which provides advice to the Science and ...

First high-resolution images sent by New Horizons prompting a rethink on our idea about the planet For all seven billion of us sharing this blue planet — on a never-ending annual trip around the Sun — ...