And the new research may offer evidence for a subsurface ocean beneath Pluto’s icy crust. Charon and Earth’s moon are both a large fraction of the size of the main body they orbit, which is ...

Pluto is probably best known for being a demoted planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stripped it of its ...

However, this new research—published this week in Nature Astronomy—also suggests that Pluto has no subsurface ocean. While the vast majority of Pluto's surface consists of methane ice and its ...

The list of worlds that may have, or may once have had, internal oceans includes several moons of Uranus, such as Ariel, Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, and Pluto, The closest internal ocean ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions of years ago, Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, didn't have a messy breakup. New computer simulations show the primitive dwarf planet ...

Pluto in Aquarius 2025: read on to learn more about what the planet of death in the sign of the water bearer has in store for the collective this year. artefacti - stock.adobe.com Let’s talk ...

According to Discover Magazine, this finding suggests that the collision process likely heated the interiors of both bodies, which may have allowed Pluto to develop a subsurface ocean without ...

The heat might be coming from a hidden ocean or radioactive elements beneath Pluto's surface. This would be a real turn-up for the books as, until now, astronomers thought Pluto was too old to ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Pluto has five moons, but Charon stands out from the rest. Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative ...