New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...

JWST confirms Pluto’s haze cools its mesosphere and drives methane escape, coating Charon’s poles red. The haze absorbs UV light, heats the upper atmosphere, and re-radiates heat as infrared.

Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science ...

NASA’s most recent photos of Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, have revealed some of the most intriguing and ...

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

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have ...

Some astronomers advocate for a broader classification that would include Pluto and other similar bodies as planets, but such proposals have yet to gain widespread acceptance.Until then ...

and potential subsurface oceans—proving that Pluto is an active and dynamic world, regardless of its classification. Though no longer officially a planet, Pluto continues to be a key focus of ...

Pluto’s mass is 1.31 x 10 22 kilograms, so it would remain excluded—but our current eight planets would retain their classification. A color image of Pluto, taken by NASA's New Horizons ...

To be clear, Pluto is not the main focus of ... move would take us away from an isolationist classification of our own existence; instead of planets just being our cosmic neighbors, planets ...

Now, Pluto is one of five dwarf planets recognized by the IAU ... of scientists won’t be as concerned about Pluto’s classification as some people are today. “We do hope that the young ...