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Pluto is 2 years old and in need of a forever home. "He's a big cuddle bug," said Sarah Meyers, from the St. Joseph County Humane Society. "We think he'd do really good with kids and other dogs as well." It's St. Pitty's Week, and that means you can adopt a pit bull from the Humane Society for just $17.

Two new books chronicle Flagstaff's long history with everybody's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto. It was discovered at Lowell Observatory in 1930 and it's been the toast of the town ever since. Local scientists have been involved with nearly every major Pluto discovery, including the recent flyby by NASA's New ...

A Seattle start-up has just launched Pluto, a virtual reality app currently in Early Access that lets gamers communicate with each other via headsets while connected to the Steam service. Much like the Discord app, which lets gamers chat and message each other whether they're playing together or not, ...

Flagstaff, AZ - Nearly every major Pluto-related discovery has ties to Flagstaff, Arizona, particularly Lowell Observatory. This has led people to call both the city and observatory the “Home of Pluto”. A new book published by The History Press, Pluto and Lowell Observatory, shares this captivating connection.

Researchers are considering the possibility that the most famous dwarf planet may contain a layer of organic material beneath its surface heated into a thick, tar-like substance. The idea, which remains speculative, could affect scientists' understanding of how Pluto is built. Because Pluto was born in the icy ...

"I agree with you that Pluto is really cool - in fact, who would have believed that Pluto has a heart? ... It's a fascinating world that appears to be constantly changing. To me, it's not so much about whether Pluto is a dwarf planet or not; it's that Pluto is a fascinating place that we need to continue to study," ...

News Brief: Nearly three years after flying past Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a target more than 4 billion miles from Earth. It's officially known as 2014 MU69, but now the New Horizons team has decided to call it Ultima Thule (“UL-ti-ma THOO-lee”), or Ultima for short. Ultima Thule is ...

This illustration provided by NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft. On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, NASA said the spacecraft is headed toward a New Year's Day 2019 encounter with a mysterious object nicknamed "Ultima Thule", 1 billion miles beyond Pluto on the fringes of our solar system.

Alan Stern: Pluto has its own personality, and the heart is probably one of the biggest parts of that. We named that heart Tombaugh Regio after the discoverer of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh. When we were far away, 100 million miles away — as far as the Earth from the Sun — and first training our cameras on ...