SpaceNews

Pluto’s Striking Surface Variations

University of Maryland astronomers Silvia Protopapa and Douglas Hamilton are among the authors of the first published paper from the New Horizons flyby, which appears in the Oct. 16, 2015, issue of ...
Labroots

Does Pluto's Surface Hide an Ocean Underneath?

It was about one year ago that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in the outskirts of our solar system, but scientists have been observing scientific data ...
Oregonian

Pluto's close-up surface photos from New Horizons

A Full View of Pluto's Stunning Crescent - In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning but incomplete image of Pluto's crescent. Thanks to new processing work by the science team, New ...
NextBigFuture

Pluto could have liquid sub-surface ocean right now so would this mean any icy large moon, large asteroid or planet has a sub-surface ocean

When the NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft buzzed by Pluto last year, it revealed tantalizing clues that the dwarf planet might have — or had at one time — a liquid ocean sloshing around under its icy ...
Astronomy

Ammonia on Pluto’s surface points to liquid water underground

The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, is still making new findings. Most recently, researchers used its data to find traces of ammonia on Pluto’s surface. Intriguingly, the ...
IFLScience

Pluto’s Surface Might Be Resting On An Ammonia-Water Slurry

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USA Today

NASA releases detailed image of Pluto's surface

Stunning new images of Pluto show towering mountain ranges made of ice, hinting that the dwarf planet may harbor geysers or ice volcanoes. The pictures were snapped by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, ...
Time

There Might Be an Ocean Under Pluto’s Surface

Pluto‘s heart might be hiding an ocean. Two studies published Wednesday by the journal Nature show that the dwarf planet’s surface might have been scarred when a smaller body slammed into it long ago.
Astronomy

Astronomers once thought Pluto’s atmosphere would condense down to the surface as it moved away from the Sun. Can that still be true, and if so, is that causing the surface ...

Pluto's atmospheric pressure has more than doubled since 1988, demonstrating significant temporal variability. This atmospheric change is attributed to factors beyond simple heliocentric distance, ...
ABC News

New Horizons Probe Snaps Snakeskin-Like Texture of Pluto's Surface

What scientists believe could be causing scales on Pluto. In this extended color image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, rounded and bizarrely textured mountains rise up along Pluto ...
Forbes

Pluto's Surface Changes Faster Than Earth's, And A Subsurface Ocean Is Driving It

On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons flew by Pluto. At a resolution of only 80 meters (260 feet) per pixel, Pluto was revealed at resolutions thousands of times better than Hubble. The mountains only ...