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 ...

Recent studies have further illuminated the interplay between Pluto’s surface features and its atmospheric characteristics. High-resolution impact modelling has demonstrated that the formation ...

Could Pluto’s atmosphere behave like Earth’s? We discovered that a new and unique (in the solar system) atmospheric process forms these snowy mountains on Pluto.” Data gathered during the ...

The research was carried ... refreezing back onto its surface. Pluto is getting colder and colder, they added. Scientists said its surface pressure and atmospheric density continued to increase ...

The data will help atmospheric modelers improve their understanding of Pluto’s subsurface layers ... nonprofit, applied research and development organization based in San Antonio, Texas ...

“There shouldn’t be enough interior heat inside Pluto,” says Kelsi Singer, a geophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute ... would be too cold that its atmospheric constituents would ...

"As the Earth has warmed over the last 100 years, so too have Jupiter, Neptune, Mars and Pluto," reads the caption of an Oct. 25 Facebook post. The post garnered more than 200 shares in a month.

NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute. Most of Pluto’s thin atmosphere ... atmosphere and give rise to atmospheric movements that are unique ...

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