As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

it observed an unmistakable nimbus around Pluto that was a thin but substantial atmosphere. In this nitrogen dominated shell, ...

Pluto has an atmosphere, albeit sparse, as confirmed by the New Horizons mission that whizzed past in 2015. One advantage of the minor planet's relatively weak gravity is that its low-density ...

Pluto's atmosphere was believed to be too thin to create the features familiar in deserts on Earth. The findings come from analysis of the startling images sent back by Nasa's New Horizons mission ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

The researchers also found a few surprises in Pluto’s atmosphere. Some of the atmospheric models suggest that the Plutonian air may be just a temporary phenomenon, freezing and collapsing when the ...

Over millions of years, that atmosphere escaped into space. Pluto is the only place in the solar system where we can study something similar happening today, Stern says, even though its atmosphere ...

As Wired explains, Pluto’s atmosphere has a blue hue as the planet keeps emitting molecular nitrogen. Once up in the atmosphere, the sun’s ultraviolet rays ionize the molecules which combine ...

I am a Pluto climate scientist! I investigate how Pluto's climate and atmosphere are coupled to its surface ices and how they have varied with time over the age of the solar system. I use numerical ...

It is really far away right now, but it comes in almost as close as Pluto. Its atmosphere right now is frozen to the surface. The atmosphere comes back to life when it comes closer in. It freezes ...

Pluto's moon: NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before the spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015. Thanks For Reading!

One of the most surprising finds was how thick its atmosphere was, which scientists learned only after the spacecraft passed Pluto. After flying over Pluto's surface, New Horizons turned around ...