A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...

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The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

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Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, astronomer Scott Manley and acclaimed author Mary Robinette Kowal, known for ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

[I Heart Pluto Fest 2025 Audio]: 95 years ago this week, there's a 24-year-old, Kansas Farm Boy that had been working here in Flagstaff for about a year, and he had discovered a planet earlier ...

Legendary "Star Trek" actor William Shatner wants Elon Musk's help to convince President Trump to restore Pluto to greatness as scientists claim to have found a “new” ninth planet.

In Flagstaff, Lowell Observatory has proclaimed the “Year of Pluto” and planned a series of celebrations, beginning with a visit Feb. 21 from mission leader Stern, who said in Tucson recently ...

It takes Pluto slightly over 248 Earth years to orbit the sun, which means that on March 23, 2178, one Plutonian year will have elapsed since the dwarf planet was first spotted, on Feb. 18, 1930.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Cold, dark and distant, it was named after the Roman god of the underworld.