The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pluto's atmosphere is going through a strange transformation, scientists are finding. The icy ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained valuable new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto. The scientists found unexpectedly large amounts of methane in the ...

When it comes to atmospheres, tiny Pluto is more resilient than you think. Research has shown that the dwarf planet’s thin atmosphere is generated by the sunlight-driven vaporization of surface ices.

Scientists are starting to get a clearer picture of how Pluto’s strange, hazy atmosphere works. Their latest discovery, concerning waves rippling through the dwarf planet's atmosphere, means that ...

A new simulation of Pluto's upper atmosphere shows that it extends so far from the planet that stray molecules may be deposited on its largest moon, Charon. The new model predicts that Pluto's ...

One of the many amazing finds of New Horizons was Pluto’s thin atmosphere, and it was even more remarkable when astronomers realized that the dwarf planet was losing less of it than expected. The rest ...

The dwarf planet's blue-tinged air may punch far above its weight. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The thin atmosphere of Pluto ...

A study of Pluto’s bright frosts suggests that the way the planet cools down is rapid and disorganised. The results were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin. Pluto’s surface ...

As Pluto passed in front of the star on August 15, 2018, a team of astronomers at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) observed Pluto's atmosphere over the sun at multiple locations in the United ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pluto's atmosphere is going through a strange transformation, scientists are finding. The icy ...