Is it possible to view Pluto from a backyard telescope? Ethan Spyker Wadsworth, Ohio If I'm being honest, Pluto is difficult ...

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

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

Recent near-infrared spectroscopic studies carried out by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found that Pluto contains both methane and ethane on its surface, key volatile molecules often found ...

January 24, 2025 • Dean chats with one of the all-time experts in antique telescopes and curator of the most unique telescope museum ... the so-called "killer of Pluto," about why Pluto was ...

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.

Inset: the Hubble Space Telescope | Credit ... The Altjira system joins the dwarf planet Pluto and the "space snowman" Arrokoth, a contact binary composed of two touching space rocks, as the ...

Today, visitors can explore Lowell Observatory, which opened an expansive new Astronomy Discovery Center in November 2024, and see the historic Pluto Discovery Telescope up close. No. Pluto is ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects. A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf ...