Pluto, once considered the ninth planet of our solar system, has been a topic of intrigue since its reclassification as a ...

New data from the James Webb telescope reveals that Pluto's strange atmospheric haze controls its climate, surprising scientists.

On August 24, 2006, Pluto ceased to be considered a planet. A mixture of rock and ice located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This demotion ...

SAN ANTONIO — January 7, 2025 —A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly elongated with an eccentricity of 0.017. (An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while the dwarf planet Pluto has a ...