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 ...

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

Here’s how it works. Streaks seen in the slightly hazy atmosphere of Pluto may arise because of a phenomenon known as buoyance waves, also known as gravity waves. While scientists recently made ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.