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

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 ...

Dean Regas: There's a picture, you probably know it well, taken by New Horizons of Pluto from this kind of like low angle where you can see the cryo-volcanoes and then the atmosphere ... flew into ...

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 ...

We are a group of experienced nuclear physicists with groundbreaking research that spans astronomy ... a chance to capture information about Pluto's atmosphere, as explained below.

"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 ...

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.

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 ...