Researchers believe that 2017 OF201’s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...

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

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 news of the demise of X accounts dedicated to popular NASA missions brought an outpouring of support and sorrow online.

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

Following a multimillion-dollar expansion program in recent times, sudden harsh science cuts are challenging America’s ...

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

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

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

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

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.