New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that Pluto’s ethereal, bluish haze represents "a new kind of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's ...

In the study titled, Evidence of haze control of Pluto's atmospheric heat balance from JWST/MIRI thermal light curves, astronomers revealed that they detected and measured the thermal emission of ...

Instead of water, Pluto's climate is driven entirely by nitrogen, which has a freezing point of -210 °C and forms conditions which makes our snowstorms look snuggly.

PASADENA, Calif. — Scientists may have spotted more than a half dozen clouds in Pluto's hazy atmosphere, researchers announced Tuesday. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in July 2015 ...

"If there are clouds, it would mean the weather on Pluto is even more complex than we imagined," Stern said. Pluto's moon Charon has also continued to yield new secrets about itself as the data ...

and it helps place Pluto’s climate on the scale of other climates known in our solar system, he said.

According to a new paper in the journal Icarus, these spikes mean that Pluto's landscape is active and influenced by climate. That's because they appear to be made of frozen methane, which is ...

See all climate myths in our special feature. There have been claims that warming on Mars and Pluto are proof that the recent warming on Earth is caused by an increase in solar activity, and not ...