To explain this bizarre behavior, a 2017 paper led by Xi Zhang, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa ...

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

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

A cooling mechanism controlled by haze particles could be responsible for keeping Pluto's atmosphere more frigid than scientists expected, a study says. The gas composition of a planet's ...

Additionally, the collision process, including tidal friction as the bodies separated, deposited considerable internal heat into both bodies, which may provide a mechanism for Pluto to develop a ...

report simulations in which the proto-bodies are solids held together by material strength — and reveal a new potential formation mechanism for the Pluto–Charon system (C. A. Denton et al.

However, Stern also accused the IAU of harming science itself when it publicly voted to relegate Pluto in 2006. “Voting is a terrible mechanism of doing science,” he said. “We don’t vote ...