It seems Pluto is incapable of running out of surprises. The latest research suggests the tiny dwarf planet may hold a vast subsurface ocean under its icy crust. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

The creation of Sputnik Planum may have caused Pluto to shift on its axis, accidentally revealing a hidden liquid ocean in the process. The 1300 km-long, 900-km wide basin, located in the icy ...

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 after ...

Pluto’s largest moon Charon may have once had a subsurface ocean that long ago became frozen and expanded. As a result, the expanding ocean that was identified through images from NASA’s New Horizons ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled as to why a bright, heart shaped region on Pluto, known as Tombaugh Regio, appears to be rotationally locked to face the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon. Data ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have figured out how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have been able to support ...

The original ocean hypothesis came from how Titan physically deforms as it orbits Saturn. As the moon follows an elliptical path, Saturn’s gravity stretches and squeezes it. In 2008, scientists argued ...

Saturn's moon Titan is an odd world. Studied in close detail by NASA's Cassini mission and other spacecraft, Titan is so cold that seas and lakes of liquid methane and ethane form on its surface. But ...

Table salt, or sodium chloride is a seemingly unremarkable substance which is ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Now a team of scientists has identified the compound on Europa—Jupiter's fourth largest ...

Scientists have predicted the presence and movement of ocean currents in the vast subsurface ocean of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. The moon, which is sheathed in a 20 km (12.4 mile)-thick shell of ...

It seems Pluto is incapable of running out of surprises. The latest research suggests the tiny dwarf planet may hold a vast subsurface ocean under its icy crust. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...