Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh, key political changes in Scandinavia and America, plus cultural and scientific milestones.

One movement in Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns, is called “Fossils.” A xylophone sounds like dancing bones, but it’s still a stretch to associate the short work with the Brontosaurus ...

Maeve Bidonde, Arts Editor Every Sunday in the planetarium tucked away in the basement of Perna Science, the Nebula Society, which is “a club for students by students,”  puts on a show to teach ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. This video explains the scientific reasoning behind its demotion, the IAU’s ...

Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was discovered. They celebrate scientific discovery, history and our solar system’s ...

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 ...

The universe is generally referred to as infinite, unknown, and limitless. With over 2 trillion galaxies and millions of stars and planets, the universe is so enormous that it stretches the boundaries ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

Pluto has never been much of a planet — small, wired orbit, not much atmosphere — and questions about its status have been raised periodically since its discovery 76 years ago. This week, the ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, ...