A Proposed Moon Formation Theory: The Multiple-Impact Hypothesis
Could the Moon have formed from multiple impacts? Find out in today’s guest post by Jacob Azoulay.
Could the Moon have formed from multiple impacts? Find out in today’s guest post by Jacob Azoulay.
In the search for habitable exoplanets, the authors of today’s paper turn their gaze to our own planet, and what we can learn from NASA’s DSCOVR:EPIC observations of Earth.
A new look at Saturn’s windy weather.
The Moon has kept the Earth at a stable orbital tilt for millions of years, preventing dramatic climate cycles and keeping the Earth habitable. But do we fully understand how it formed? Today’s bite provides clues as to how we ended up with our trusted companion.
Astronomers hope to get lucky and discover the first evidence of plate tectonics on a planet besides Earth: remnants of continental crust in the rocky material that pollutes some white dwarfs.
It sounds convoluted: today’s astrobite observed a lunar eclipse in order to learn about the Earth’s atmosphere, to understand more about how to observe exoplanets. How and why do they do this? Read on…