Skip to headlines

SCIENCE

NASA’s New Horizons spots signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto

ScienceDailyThursday, September 17, 2026 at 4:02 AM

RedScroll Brief

NASA’s New Horizons spots signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto
Image via ScienceDaily

Scientists have found the first evidence that liquid may have flowed across Pluto’s surface in the recent past. Dark features on the enormous Sputnik Planitia glacier appear consistent with liquid nitrogen rising through cracks from deep beneath the ice.

RedScroll Signal

Impact
High
Category
Science
Market relevance
None
Why it matters
Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product. Scientists have found the first evidence that liquid may have flowed across Pluto’s surface in the recent past. Dark features on the enormous Sputnik Planitia glacier appear consistent with liquid nitrogen rising through cracks from deep beneath the ice.

Desk copy

RedScroll Briefing

Extractive editorial brief — not a reprint of the original

What happened

Scientists have found the first evidence that liquid may have flowed across Pluto’s surface in the recent past. Dark features on the enormous Sputnik Planitia glacier appear consistent with liquid nitrogen rising through cracks from deep beneath the ice.

Why it matters

Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product.

Background

ScienceDaily reported on this under science. RedScroll surfaces the signal with an extractive brief — not a reprint of the original article. Read the source for full reporting.

Timeline

  1. ScienceDaily published: NASA’s New Horizons spots signs of liquid nitrogen flowing on Pluto

  2. Story is in today’s RedScroll edition. Follow the original source for updates.

More on

Related stories

Source

ScienceDaily

Original reporting by ScienceDaily. RedScroll provides an extractive briefing only.