It seems Pluto is incapable of running out of surprises. The latest research suggests the tiny dwarf planet may hold a vast subsurface ocean under its icy crust. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...
The creation of Sputnik Planum may have caused Pluto to shift on its axis, accidentally revealing a hidden liquid ocean in the process. The 1300 km-long, 900-km wide basin, located in the icy ...
For decades, astronomers have puzzled as to why a bright, heart shaped region on Pluto, known as Tombaugh Regio, appears to be rotationally locked to face the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon. Data ...
A suspected subsurface ocean on Pluto might be old and deep. New analyses of images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest that the dwarf planet has had an underground ocean since shortly after ...
Pluto’s largest moon Charon may have once had a subsurface ocean that long ago became frozen and expanded. As a result, the expanding ocean that was identified through images from NASA’s New Horizons ...
Saturn's moon Titan is an odd world. Studied in close detail by NASA's Cassini mission and other spacecraft, Titan is so cold that seas and lakes of liquid methane and ethane form on its surface. But ...
It seems Pluto is incapable of running out of surprises. The latest research suggests the tiny dwarf planet may hold a vast subsurface ocean under its icy crust. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...