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 ...

Pluto is widely believed in the scientific community to have formed 4.5 billion years ago. By analyzing the faults, ridges and other possible features of a long-lost ocean on the dwarf planet, the ...

Despite Pluto’s great distance from the sun, Nimmo said, it is entirely possible for it to have a liquid water ocean that endures to this day. “Pluto has quite a lot of rock on its inside, and ...

However if Pluto formed quickly you have impact on top of impact, repeatedly warming the surface until you get warm enough that an ocean can form. We calculate that Pluto would have had to form in ...

Dwarf planet Pluto may be hiding an icy ocean beneath its surface, according to two new reports published by the scientific journal Nature. The papers seek to explain why Sputnik Planitia – a ...

Pluto’s “heart” is spilling its secrets. Scientists using data from NASA’s New Horizons mission have found more evidence that there may be an ocean beneath the dwarf planet’s surface.

But how could a buried ocean stay unfrozen on Pluto over the 4.6-billion-year history of the solar system? After all, the dwarf planet doesn't circle a gas giant, so its innards aren't roiled and ...

Science; Pluto; Pluto has been home to a vast ocean for 4.5 billion years, scientists claim An analysis of images from NASA's New Horizons mission shows Pluto was hot when it first formed This ...

The best match was a scenario in which Pluto has an subsurface ocean layer that’s more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick, with a salinity of around 30 percent.

If you’re planning on visiting Pluto anytime soon, best to bring some warm boots. A frigid, possibly “slushy” subsurface ocean could be lurking under the crust of the dwarf planet.

However if Pluto formed quickly you have impact on top of impact, repeatedly warming the surface until you get warm enough that an ocean can form. We calculate that Pluto would have had to form in ...

(CNN) --Today, the dwarf planet Pluto orbits the sun from the edge of our solar system and its surface temperature is an inhospitable negative 378 to negative 396 degrees Fahrenheit. But a new ...