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

When a star explodes, it sends high-energy particles out in all directions. This burst of energy can travel through space for ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission has taken humanity closer than ever to understanding the mysterious dwarf planet, Pluto. In 2015, ...

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

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has confirmed a groundbreaking hypothesis about Pluto’s atmospheric conditions, ...

Thanks to the powerful vision of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have just confirmed something truly ...

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

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead of a typical planet-moon setup, Pluto and Charon became a binary system.

Today, visitors can explore Lowell Observatory, which opened an expansive new Astronomy Discovery Center in November 2024, and see the historic Pluto Discovery Telescope up close. No. Pluto is ...

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.

The discovery of Pluto is credited to Clyde Tombaugh, then just 24 years old, an amateur with no formal education in astronomy whose dogged determination earned him a place in the history of science.