The incident could have created enough heat for Pluto to form an underground ocean, Adeene Denton, the lead researcher, told Mashable. It's an intriguing implication, supporting existing ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...

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 ...

Tidal friction as the pair separated would have heated up both bodies, the team believe, potentially resolving the mystery of how Pluto could have formed a subsurface ocean without having formed ...

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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 ...