A Tiny, Icy World Beyond Pluto Could Have An Atmosphere That Makes No Sense

Scientists have been baffled by the object.

Everyone’s favourite demoted planet, Pluto, may be shielding a mystery that’s baffled scientists.

An icy body beyond the dwarf planet seems to have an atmosphere that shouldn’t be there, according to a paper published in Nature Astronomy.

The object should be too small to have an atmosphere

At just 500km across, the object, catchily named (612533) 2002 XV ought to be too tiny to have any atmosphere at all.

That’s partly why little planet Pluto was believed to be the only object in our solar system that had an atmosphere beyond Neptune.

But researchers........

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