He wouldn't have to wait long; on February 18th, 1930, the planet of Pluto was officially discovered by scientists, and just a few months later in September, a then-nameless cartoon bloodhound would track Mickey Mouse in the The Chain Gang. That dog
Pluto, our solar system's lovably puny outlier and everyone's favorite demoted planet, is less puny than we thought.
Tuesday morning, the New Horizons space probe zipped past Pluto going 30,000 miles per hour. It carries the ashes of the man who discovered the dwarf planet, along with several spectrometers to analyze Pluto's surface and one telescopic camera.
NASA has been tense with anticipation for the last few weeks as its spacecraft, New Horizons, barreled through deep-space at over 30,000 mph on its way to Pluto. Now, the spacecraft's mission to the dwarf planet, which was
It's taken almost an entire decade of travel, but it's finally there: Today NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made its closest planned approached to Pluto, speeding past it at 31,300 miles per hour and at just 7,750 miles