LAS CRUCES – It’s shaping up as another big year for our favorite dwarf planet and its discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. A year after the New Horizons probe, with Tombaugh’s ashes on board, made its closest ...

Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto's discoverer, was a humorous and engaging person. Pluto's classification as a dwarf planet is a significant topic in planetary science. The New Horizons spacecraft will soon ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – His name is being heard around the planet as we get a closer look at his monumental discovery, but few are aware of Clyde Tombaugh’s other work. That could change and it’s ...

On February 18, 1930, amateur astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered "Planet X" using an astrograph, which is essentially a space camera. Planet X was soon named Pluto, and the rest is a nerd battle of ...

Clyde Tombaugh noticed a speck of light that was Pluto in 1930. — -- Clyde Tombaugh is finally getting to visit the speck of light he spotted at the edge of the solar system in 1930. New Horizons ...

The New Mexico Museum of Space History announced last week that the transfer of the Clyde W. Tombaugh Science Education Center was completed in January. The Tombaugh Center was previously owned and ...

LAS CRUCES - Tombaugh Day, the annual celebration of the life and work of astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Museum of Nature and Science. The Museum ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated with information about a Tombaugh exhibit and panel discussion at NMSU. LAS CRUCES - Tuesday marks the 90th anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of ...

When the late American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered planet Pluto 76 years ago this month, he opened the gateway to an unknown region of ancient, icy objects unlike any worlds in our solar ...

Read below to learn more about the life of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto. Clyde William Tombaugh was born in Streator, Illinois on February 4, 1906. He grew up on the family farm there ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. An illustration of the New Horizons probe (NASA) Tombaugh, who died in 1997, has a pretty ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Come Tuesday, Clyde Tombaugh will pass within 7,800 miles of the icy world he discovered 85 years ago. His ashes are flying on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on humanity's ...