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 ...

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 ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic 2015 flyby of Pluto. Learn how this space probe, utilizing a gravitational ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have peered into a mysterious blue haze cloaking the surface of Pluto — and discovered that it's controlling the dwarf planet's climate and atmosphere.

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NASA explains Pluto's newly discovered "blue sky" and whether or not potential astronauts could ever witness an Earth-like sunrise. The New Horizons space probe sent back its first color images of ...

SOFIA observed the occultation by Pluto of a bright star on 29 June 2015, enabling scientists to measure pressure, density, and temperature profiles of the atmosphere of the dwarf planet. Pre-event ...

Pluto’s atmosphere, though tenuous compared to those of the terrestrial planets, exhibits a fascinating complexity driven by extreme temperatures and dynamic surface interactions. Predominantly ...