JWST finally detects radiation from Pluto that conclusively determines that Pluto's haze indeed impacts its climate.

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto's surface shrouded in atmospheric haze. (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

More information: Tanguy Bertrand et al, Evidence of haze control of Pluto's atmospheric heat balance from JWST/MIRI thermal light curves, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02573-z ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s moon Charon, where it helped scientists to make a surprising discovery.

In the study titled, Evidence of haze control of Pluto's atmospheric heat balance from JWST/MIRI thermal light curves, astronomers revealed that they detected and measured the thermal emission of ...

For the study, the researchers used the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to conduct observations during several occultations of Trappist-1 b, ...

Pluto is the smallest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it about 1/5th the width of Earth, even smaller than our moon. Check out these 7 stunning ...