20 May 2019
A thin layer of ice-trapped gas stops Pluto's oceans from freezing
When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft got up close to Pluto in 2015, our view of...ocean hadn’t frozen solid after eons traversing the frigid expanse of outer space. Now, new research suggests that a thin layer of ice-trapped gas molecules at the base of...
18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
... subsurface ocean, now according to a new study using data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, researchers from MIT suggest ...should be, has so far lacked a convincing explanation. However this new data suggests that a thick, heavy ocean may serve as ...
02 January 2019
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes history...again!
Needing less power than a pair of 100-watt light bulbs to perform its mission, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft makes history, again, by getting within 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles) of the icy world known as ...
22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
...on Pluto’s surface. In contrast, if Bierson, Nimmo and Stern, who also happens to be the principle investigator of the New Horizons mission, give Pluto a ‘hot’ beginning, Pluto produces an early, rapid phase of extension, followed by a more prolonged...
