Scientists say it’s important to research geoengineering – large-scale attempts to cool the planet to fight climate change – ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has confirmed a groundbreaking hypothesis about Pluto’s atmospheric conditions, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system’s many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

The layers of the atmosphere are actually blankets ... University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute South of Pluto’s heart is an extraordinary mountain shaped like ...

"Pluto's low gravity (about 6 percent of Earth's) causes the atmosphere to be much more ... Sun heats up sand on a beach,” said Southwest Research Institute Staff Scientist Dr. Leslie Young ...

A compilation of 12 stellar occultations by Pluto observed between 1988 and 2016 showed a three-fold monotonic increase of atmospheric pressure during this period. The international team of scientists ...

“Their research shows that since mid-2015, Pluto’s atmosphere is in a plateau phase close to the peak and is in excellent agreement with the model values calculated earlier by the Pluto ...

At first, the images just showed a ring of sunlight filtering through Pluto’s hazy atmosphere (SN ... scientist John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.