Pluto's atmosphere was believed to be too thin to create the features familiar in deserts on Earth. The findings come from analysis of the startling images sent back by Nasa's New Horizons mission ...

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As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

Over millions of years, that atmosphere escaped into space. Pluto is the only place in the solar system where we can study something similar happening today, Stern says, even though its atmosphere ...

As Wired explains, Pluto’s atmosphere has a blue hue as the planet keeps emitting molecular nitrogen. Once up in the atmosphere, the sun’s ultraviolet rays ionize the molecules which combine ...

Billions of years ago, two icy worlds—Pluto and Chron—collided in the farthest reaches of our solar system. But rather than ...

A blue atmosphere, smooth areas, and youthful mountain ranges - this dwarf planet is full of surprises. When NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto in July 2015, the images it returned astonished ...

Pluto has an atmosphere, albeit sparse, as confirmed by the New Horizons mission that whizzed past in 2015. One advantage of the minor planet's relatively weak gravity is that its low-density ...

Did you know Pluto is much more than just a ‘dwarf planet’? Thanks to the New Horizons mission, scientists have uncovered stunning details about its surface, atmosphere, and icy heart.