Even as the IAU was officially demoting Pluto, NASA was sending the first probe intended to study it. The history of our surprisingly fond relationship with what was originally known as “Planet X” deserves to be remembered.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.