Pluto may contain a subsurface ocean warm enough to host life, according to a UK Physicist Brian Cox who also said that humans could be the only complex life in our galaxy. Cox believes the tell-tale ooze of glaciers on Pluto's surface hints at the possibility of a subterranean sea warm enough to host organic chemistry.
"The New Horizons probe showed you that there may well be a subsurface ocean on Pluto, which means - if our understanding of life on Earth is even standing of life on life on Earth is even slightly correct - that you could have living things there" Cox said. The New Horizons spacecraft performed a flyboy of Pluto in July. The spacecraft captured detailed images and other data of Pluto and also of its moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra.
It is unlikely, however, that New Horizons would be able to tell for certain whether warm water exists beneath the dwarf planet. Cox said that the most immediate prospect for finding evidence of life was on the moons of other planets closer to home.
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