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.

Many people hold Pluto close in their hearts and refuse to abandon the assertion that it is a planet, although science ...

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

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

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

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

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor ... a donut-shaped section of space past the orbit of ...

Scientists also discovered ... staff scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said in the SwRI announcement. For researchers, Charon is just the beginning. Pluto has four other moons ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.