A Moon’s Moon?!
Is it possible for moons to have moons? Today’s authors look at our own solar system for answers!
Boomerang, Slingshot, or Torque-Dependent? How to Classify Your Favorite Ring-Satellite System
When moons and rings orbit together, the results can be crazy. This paper proposes three regimes to more easily understand these complex interactions.
Moonetesimals likely form relatively quickly
The absence of dusty circumplanetary disks around young giant planets suggests moonetesimals grow relatively quickly.
That’s no exomoon… or is it? A careful evaluation of evidence for Kepler-1625b-i
Today’s authors carefully check their evidence for the first potential exomoon detection.
Making Mountains out of…?
If there’s one thing that 21st-century telescopes have shown us about Pluto, it’s that there’s still a lot we don’t know about our very far-off neighbor. Today we look into just one of Pluto’s many mysteries: the formation of its complex five-moon system.
Science at the edge of the Solar System
Pluto: the last and final of the ‘original’ 9 planets of the Solar System to be visited by a probe. NASA’s New Horizons arrived at this tiny world at the edge of the Solar System earlier this week bringing into sharp focus for the first time. Science was a plentiful from every new image that was released, so here’s a quick recap for you, just in case you blinked and missed it…