The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

At first, the images just showed a ring of sunlight filtering through Pluto’s hazy atmosphere (SN: 7/24/15). “It’s very hard to see anything in that glare,” says planetary scientist John ...

Saturn’s moon Titan is distinctive, in part for its orange-ish and hazy atmosphere ... It’s less prominent in Pluto’s meager atmosphere, but it is there (it's actually similar to the ...

The dwarf planet's blue-tinged air may punch far above its weight. The thin atmosphere of Pluto may be far more resilient than scientists thought The dwarf planet's thin shell of air is generated ...

Scientists are starting to get a clearer picture of how Pluto’s strange, hazy atmosphere works. Their latest discovery, concerning waves rippling through the dwarf planet's atmosphere ...

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.

The dwarf planet Pluto is seen in true color in this stunning four-image mosaic created by photos from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during the probe's historic flyby in July 2015. NASA unveiled ...

“Pluto is the first planetary body we know ... That observatory can detect infrared light, which the hazy Plutonian atmosphere would be positively glowing with as it scattered sunlight.