Ask a person what Dysnomia refers to, and they might venture that it's a medical condition. In truth, they would be correct. But in addition to being a condition that affects the memory (where people ...
The Dark Gravity Counter That Anchors the Solitary QueenPrevious Episode RecapIn the previous story, we stepped into the ...
The International Astronomical Union is a catty bunch. First they stripped Pluto of its planetary status, and then they , and then demoted it again to the level of “dwarf planet”–for real this time.
University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Planetary Sciences Francis Nimmo recently co-authored a Science Advances paper about the internal structure of the dwarf planet Eris. Eris is about ...
You know how the gravity of Earth’s moon helps create tides in our oceans? And perhaps you know that the Earth and moon are tidally locked. In other words, Earth’s gravity keeps a single face of the ...
The Kuiper belt is full of weirdness. In the "inner" solar system -- by which, for the purposes of this post, I mean everything inside Neptune's orbit -- there are lots of round moons, but they're all ...
A preview of NASA's Phoenix Mars lander mission and the science objectives to dig into the arctic plains of the Red Planet are presented here. Shuttle Endeavour is transported from its hangar to the ...
Dysnomia, is a moon of the dwarf planet Eris. The satellite is about 60 times fainter than Eris, and its diameter is estimated to be approximately eight times smaller. Astronomers now know that three ...
University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Planetary Sciences Francis Nimmo recently co-authored a Science Advances paper about the internal structure of the dwarf planet Eris. Eris is about ...