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, ...

JWST confirms Pluto’s haze cools its mesosphere and drives methane escape, coating Charon’s poles red. The haze absorbs UV light, heats the upper atmosphere, and re-radiates heat as infrared.

Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a ...

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has confirmed a groundbreaking hypothesis about Pluto’s atmospheric conditions, ...

In Minneapolis and St. Paul, an air quality alert was in effect for forecasted "unhealthy ... will be unhealthy for sensitive groups. The haze started to appear Tuesday afternoon and you will ...

BUT THE TEMPERATURES ARE GOING UP. WE’VE GOT SUMMER HEAT BUILDING IN THIS WEEK AND A BIT OF A SMOKY HAZE THAT’S GOING TO BE THICKENING UP MIDWEEK FROM THOSE WILDFIRES THAT ARE BURNING IN CANADA.

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 ...

Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided new clues about how the exoplanet WASP-121b has formed and where it might have originated in the disk of gas and dust around ...