Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a key role in the planet's energy balance.

New data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has finally given astronomers new clues about how Pluto cools itself.

This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto — and scientists mean "distant" quite literally. At its farthest point, it's more than 1,600 tim ...

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

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

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

Pluto has five moons—“fun-looking space potatoes,” Singer calls them—and its largest is a behemoth. Charon was discovered in 1978 when scientists noticed Pluto appeared to elongate every ...

"What we've discovered is something entirely different ... with the moon forming out of the molten debris which had been ejected into space. "Pluto and Charon are different—they're smaller ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

Upon the discovery of its existence in 1930, Pluto enjoyed decades of special ... this process begins with clouds of gas and dust in space. Once dust enters a disk of gas orbiting a star, Lyra ...

Although Seeing in the Dark doesn't directly discuss Pluto ... seemed alone in its region of space, much as Ceres had seemed before the other asteroids were discovered. But then, starting in ...

It is located in the distant Kuiper Belt," the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by American astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh, the Lowell Observatory said.