The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and ... New data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Spectrograph instrument ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies in the outer solar ... creating new and more complex hydrocarbon molecules ...

TNOs, frozen for billions of years, hold untouched secrets of the early solar system’s formation. 'Gaia’s cosmic surprise': Giant planet found where it shouldn’t exist 'Cancer risk, brain ...

Pluto is too far away from Earth to be seen with the naked eye. If you stood on Pluto's surface, the Sun would merely appear to be a very bright star. Although previous images showed that ...

With no plans for another Pluto mission, NASA's most powerful eyes in space, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be the next to study the oddity of the solar system.

1, 2024 — Astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.