New Horizons

Stand by for more close-ups of Pluto. NASA plans to release the best images yet of the object formerly known as the 9th planet in our solar system.

NASA has released the first, close-up photograph of Pluto, which appears to show a heart-shaped image on the surface. NASA calls it a "love letter" from Pluto. The mysterious dwarf planet, once considered the 9th planet in our solar system, was discovered in 1930 by Kansas farmer Clyde Tombaugh.

NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has special meaning for a Kansas City man. Doug Tombaugh is the nephew of Clyde Tombaugh, the Kansas farmer who discovered Pluto in 1930. Doug remembers his uncle as a man filled with scientific curiosity... the kind of man who builds his own telescopes by hand.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has determined that tiny Pluto is a little bigger than previously thought.

In the winter of 1930, Clyde Tombaugh, of Burdett, Kansas, discovered Pluto. He became famous and Pluto became a rock star, so to speak. Heck, Mickey…

The citizens of Flagstaff, Arizona are celebrating the town where, in 1930, Clyde Tombaugh identified the mysterious, icy orb later named Pluto. The former Kansas farm boy was working at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff at the time of his remarkable discovery.

Q: It was in 1926 that Clyde Tombaugh decided to build his own telescope. He had been using a store-bought telescope on the family farm in Burdett, Kan.,…

This summer, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly by Pluto, the mysterious planet first identified in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, of Burdett, Kansas. Commentator Cheryl Unruh tells us about the man and his amazing discovery.