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

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active ...

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

They used telescopes at multiple sites in the United States and Mexico to study Pluto's thin atmosphere, primarily made of nitrogen, reported Space.com. The research was carried out by the ...

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 ...

Its thin atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, has persisted despite the rock-bottom temperatures, but new research suggests that trend may changing, and Pluto’s atmosphere could ...

But Pluto's atmosphere is thicker than Triton's ... a postdoctoral researcher at the Southwest Research Institute, said in a statement. An expert on impact craters, Singer is working with Stern ...

To play around with this idea, the research team used model simulations of atmospheric chemistry, including the physics of particle settling toward Pluto’s surface. The simulation shows ...

But a team at Southwest Research Institute ... amount of nitrogen present on Pluto, and also estimated how much of the element could have escaped out of its atmosphere over the eons.

The researchers reported May 4 in the American Geophysical Union's Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics that astrophysicists now have a treasure trove of information about how Pluto's ...

I was hooked on Pluto atmosphere research. I focused on the planet's chemistry. When Alan Stern, the New Horizons principal investigator, started pulling together researchers to work on the ...

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