Farm Boy Built Telescope from Car Parts, Discovered Pluto
When hailstorms destroyed his college fund in 1928, Clyde Tombaugh built a telescope from Buick axles and grain elevator scraps. Two years later, he discovered Pluto.
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Webb Telescope Finds Mystery Molecule on Titan and Pluto
Scientists detected the same unexplained chemical signature on two distant worlds that have almost nothing in common. The discovery opens new questions about what might exist on these far-off surfaces.
Webb Telescope Finds Mystery Molecule on Pluto and Titan
Scientists discovered an unknown substance on two distant worlds that exists nowhere else in our solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope detected a mysterious absorption pattern that could reveal brand new chemistry in space.
NASA Probe Reveals Pluto's Heart After 3 Billion Mile Trip
For 85 years, Pluto was just a fuzzy dot in our telescopes. Then a piano-sized spacecraft changed everything we thought we knew about our solar system's most mysterious world.
NASA Chief Fights to Make Pluto a Planet Again
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman just told Congress he's working on papers to restore Pluto's planetary status, nearly 20 years after it was controversially downgraded. The billionaire astronaut is championing the icy world discovered by American Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.