According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...

Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

Lowell Observatory will be hosting the 2025 I Heart Pluto Festival from Feb. 13 to 17, celebrating the planet and its ...

The city of Flagstaff has taken big steps to preserve the clarity of its night sky. Find out the best ways to experience the ...

His drawings of Mars and Jupiter led to a job at Lowell Observatory. There, two years later, he discovered Pluto. Photograph by Bettmann/Corbis On that late afternoon—it was February 18 ...

In 1928, the amateur astronomer was offered a job at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, where he discovered Pluto. In 1934, he married Patricia Edson. They had two children, Annette and Alden.

Since its founding in 1894, Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff has been a beacon of astronomical discovery, its scientists famously identifying Pluto and revealing the expanding universe. Now ...

At the Lowell Observatory, visitors can conjure their inner astronomer by peering through world-class telescopes and sitting in on lectures on topics like black holes and the history of Pluto.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh while he worked at Lowell Observatory in Flagship, Arizona. Sputnik Planitia is a white basin measuring 750 by 1,250 miles near Pluto's equator that ...

The study analyzed the circumstellar disks of a pair of stars, learning about how planets are formed from some unexpected ...

He will spearhead the observatory's new Science Vision ... evidence of the expanding universe and the discovery of Pluto. Today, Lowell's astronomers utilize global ground-based and space ...

Jan. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowell Observatory is pleased to announce ... conference in Prague, which relegated Pluto to being a 'dwarf planet' (which according to the IAU resolution is not ...