Pluto's atmosphere is going through a strange transformation, scientists are finding. The icy dwarf planet, which lies over 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers) away from Earth in the Kuiper Belt, ...

Discover the incredible story of NASA's New Horizons mission, from its 2006 launch aboard an Atlas V rocket to its historic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pluto’s atmosphere may completely collapse and freeze by 2030, according to a 28-year study of the small, cold dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system. Every 248 years, Pluto completes another ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Pluto's atmosphere may completely collapse and freeze by 2030, according to a 28-year study of the small, cold dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system. Pluto's atmosphere may completely collapse ...