Discovery of Pluto at Flagstaff observatory continues to inspire 92 years later. By Hope O’Brien Cronkite News Feb 24, 2022 Feb 24, 2022 Updated Jun 22, 2023; 1 of 3 ...

Nestled atop Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Lowell Observatory has been a cornerstone of astronomical discovery since 1894 — and ...

The I Heart Pluto Festival began in 2020, 90 years after Pluto’s discovery at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. It’s always held over Presidents' Day weekend, close to the discovery date.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Cold, dark and distant, it was named after the Roman god of the underworld . In Greek ...

Flagstaff has a lot of pride for Pluto. Thursday kicks off the annual “I Heart Pluto” festival to celebrate when it was discovered in February 1930. “That’s what’s great about standing ...

[I Heart Pluto Fest 2025 Audio]: 95 years ago this week, there's a 24-year-old, Kansas Farm Boy that had been working here in Flagstaff for about a year, and he had discovered a planet earlier ...

That came just after the March 6 announcement that Lowell ranked No. 1 in Newsweek's readers choice list of 10 best science museums in the United States. That recognition emphasized Lowell’s ...

PHOENIX (CN) — For 75 years after its discovery at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Pluto inched around the outskirts of our solar system known to all as the ninth planet from the sun.

Astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto on Feb. 18, 1930, at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. It appears Pluto Day sprang up naturally as an informal anniversary holiday, ...

(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun. The correct number is 3.7 billion miles.) What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague ...