When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Streaks seen in the slightly hazy atmosphere of Pluto may arise because of a phenomenon known as ...

Scientists are starting to get a clearer picture of how Pluto’s strange, hazy atmosphere works. Their latest discovery, concerning waves rippling through the dwarf planet's atmosphere, means that ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been returning some pretty amazing information about the former planet, Pluto. One of its most interesting discoveries was the weird “layered” atmosphere, composed ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has possibly found the answer to the streaks present in the hazy atmosphere in Pluto: gravity waves. New Horizons flyby in 2015 gave a clearer ...

Pluto’s wispy atmosphere is seen in this photo, which was captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft shortly after its closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015. NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI ...

Thanks to the New Horizons probe of Pluto, we know it has an incredible atmosphere. It’s a gorgeous thing to behold, but scientists have never been able to figure out exactly what’s causing its ...

In late August 2006, new discoveries upended a traditional, comfortable way of viewing our solar system: Scientists decided Pluto wasn’t a planet after all. Some space nerds like to mourn Pluto’s loss ...

The New Horizons spacecraft has officially entered Pluto’s neighborhood. NASA mission specialist Alex Parker tweeted today that the probe has entered the area of space where Pluto exerts more ...

The Gravity Assist Podcast is hosted by NASA's Director of Planetary Science, Jim Green, who each week talks to some of the greatest planetary scientists on the planet, giving a guided tour through ...

Make Pluto a planet again. According to a new study published in the scientific journal Icarus, Pluto never should have been downgraded more than a decade ago. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for Pluto's streak-filled, hazy atmosphere. After analyzing data from the New Horizons probe that flew past Pluto in July 2015, scientists now think the ...