10 September 2018
IAU wrong about Pluto's planetary status say scientists
... body, because apparently when it happens, it initiates active geology in the body.” If this were the case, then Pluto would be right back up there with its bigger planetary neighbours as it has organic compounds, an underground ocean, evidence...
22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
..., 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 extensional phase. This would have left...
22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
...on the loneliest planet in our Solar System revealed an unexpected find; Pluto, it seems is expanding. If, in the very distance past many ...the study's lead author. These features, that mark Pluto’s mottled surface are deep sinuous faults, hundreds of...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
...the ‘solar model’ and a model favoured by many to explain Pluto's origin, the nitrogen atoms in the N2 observed on the ... the compound. One sticking point to the theory is that if Pluto was formed by the accretion of a billion comets, then it should...
18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
...on the heart’s western lobe. Tombaugh Regio, which is Pluto's brightest region, has puzzled astronomers for a number of years... giant meteorite, which would have blasted away a huge amount of Pluto's icy crust. As the object impacted the surface, if a ...
06 June 2018
New Horizons wakes up ready for next flyby
...new target as Ultima Thule orbits a billion miles beyond Pluto, making it the farthest planetary encounter in history and the.... New Horizons gave scientists an unprecedented look at Pluto to reveal vast mountain ranges and evidence for cryovolcanism...
