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Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star

For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space Telescope cou...

SCIENCE August 03, 2026

Pluto was expected to be a frozen, cratered relic, but when New Horizons flew past in 2015 it found flowing nitrogen glaciers, mountains of water ice and hints of a hidden ocean, on a world where the Sun looks like just a bright star

For most of the time we have known about Pluto, it was a smudge. Even the Hubble Space Telescope could resolve it only into a few blurry pixels.

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A world four billion miles from the Sun turned out to be far more geologically alive than anyone dared imagine.

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