The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Aug. 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a full-fledged planet, demoting ...

Arizona has declared Pluto its “official state planet” — despite it being relegated to “dwarf planet” status nearly two decades ago. Gov. Katie Hobbs signed legislation on Friday and afterward dodged ...

We are less than two weeks away from the 95th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto, the ice-caked, rocky sphere orbiting ...

On January 17, 2006 the New Horizons mission will launch for Pluto, the last unexplored planet of the solar system — or is it? Some scientists now claim that Pluto does not deserve its planetary ...