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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

according to research to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Discovered in 1930, it was only around 1980 that astronomers began to suspect Pluto might have an atmosphere.

If Pluto's atmosphere collapses and freezes over ... away if they are snowed under with nitrogen frost," he said. "This research has been crucial in furthering our understanding of Pluto and ...

Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a ...

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 ...

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

New data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has finally given astronomers new clues about how Pluto cools itself.

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 ...

Pluto's tenuous atmosphere is mainly composed of methane ... For the new calculations, Erwin's team used previously published research from themselves and other scientists.