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

A cooling mechanism controlled by haze particles could be responsible for keeping Pluto's atmosphere more frigid than scientists expected, a study says. The gas composition of a planet's ...

If the haze particles are indeed the main factor cooling Pluto’s atmosphere, they would make the dwarf planet appear relatively bright in mid-infrared wavelengths. Zhang hopes to observe Pluto ...

New research from the University of Arizona (U of A) claims that Pluto may not have been created with a bang, but with a kiss. The study, published in Nature Geoscience, looks at how Pluto and its ...

Additionally, the collision process, including tidal friction as the bodies separated, deposited considerable internal heat into both bodies, which may provide a mechanism for Pluto to develop a ...

This climate mechanism may be unique to Pluto, and has never been observed ... The methane deposits may not result from adiabatic cooling in upwardly moving air like on our planet, but from ...

This novel formation mechanism involves the proto-Charon colliding with Pluto without major changes, becoming stuck together in a snowman shape for a while before rotational forces pull them apart.

report simulations in which the proto-bodies are solids held together by material strength — and reveal a new potential formation mechanism for the Pluto–Charon system (C. A. Denton et al.

Now, a team of researchers has suggested that Pluto may have secured Charon through a newly described “kiss and capture” mechanism that challenges previous theories. Their work was published ...

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