Phil Plait https://www.linkedin.com/company/nbcuniversal-inc-/mycompany/ All Good Things… So long, and thanks for all the space. By Phil Plait 2 years ago The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Mea culpa: Planet definitions and Earth clearing its orbit Would Earth still be considered a planet if it were out in Neptune’s orbit? By Phil Plait 2 years ago Tonight, NASA's DART will slam into an asteroid at 24,000 kph NASA's hoping for a DART bullseye. By Phil Plait 2 years ago JWST’s Neptune: The best infrared view in 30 years JWST spies on Neptune and sees storms, rings, and moons. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Happy September equinox! Today the Sun is directly over Earth's equator. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Whoop whoop whoop! NASA InSight 'hears' an asteroid impact on Mars Four separate impacts detected by the NASA lander. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Astronomers find the nearest black hole to Earth, and it has a Sun-like companion star At 1,570 light-years away it's three times closer than the previous record holder. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Astronomers find the death cry of a star in a cluster long ago and not so very far away The oldest planetary nebula ever seen is in the star cluster M37. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Could the destruction of a large icy moon explain both Saturn’s tilt and its rings? Saturn's rings may be the debris from a long-dead moon. By Phil Plait 2 years ago A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star GJ 896Ab is a planet of many odd characteristics. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Keck and JWST team up to watch as massive stars blast away gas in the Orion Nebula The Orion Bar is one place you don’t want to hang out. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebed is surprisingly volcanic Igneous rocks provide a timeline to a crater lake. By Phil Plait 2 years ago A new way to find old impact craters: Look at the burned plants Apocalyptic asteroid impacts burn everything around them, which helps ID them. By Phil Plait 2 years ago Two super-Earths found around a tiny red dwarf star — with one in the habitable zone Small star, big planets, great opportunity. By Phil Plait 2 years ago A still-forming exoplanet predicted to exist is found in exactly the right spot AS 209's Jupiter-sized planet seen stirring things up around the young star By Phil Plait 2 years ago The infrared heart of the Tarantula New jaw-dropping JWST images of a vast star-forming factory. By Phil Plait 2 years ago A nearby super-Earth may be a water world The planet TOI-1452b is bigger than Earth and may have a lot more water. By Phil Plait 2 years ago What reionized the Universe, and when? New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent. By Phil Plait 2 years ago SYFY WIRE | Page 2
The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Mea culpa: Planet definitions and Earth clearing its orbit Would Earth still be considered a planet if it were out in Neptune’s orbit? By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Tonight, NASA's DART will slam into an asteroid at 24,000 kph NASA's hoping for a DART bullseye. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
JWST’s Neptune: The best infrared view in 30 years JWST spies on Neptune and sees storms, rings, and moons. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Whoop whoop whoop! NASA InSight 'hears' an asteroid impact on Mars Four separate impacts detected by the NASA lander. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Astronomers find the nearest black hole to Earth, and it has a Sun-like companion star At 1,570 light-years away it's three times closer than the previous record holder. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Astronomers find the death cry of a star in a cluster long ago and not so very far away The oldest planetary nebula ever seen is in the star cluster M37. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Could the destruction of a large icy moon explain both Saturn’s tilt and its rings? Saturn's rings may be the debris from a long-dead moon. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star GJ 896Ab is a planet of many odd characteristics. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Keck and JWST team up to watch as massive stars blast away gas in the Orion Nebula The Orion Bar is one place you don’t want to hang out. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebed is surprisingly volcanic Igneous rocks provide a timeline to a crater lake. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
A new way to find old impact craters: Look at the burned plants Apocalyptic asteroid impacts burn everything around them, which helps ID them. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Two super-Earths found around a tiny red dwarf star — with one in the habitable zone Small star, big planets, great opportunity. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
A still-forming exoplanet predicted to exist is found in exactly the right spot AS 209's Jupiter-sized planet seen stirring things up around the young star By Phil Plait 2 years ago
The infrared heart of the Tarantula New jaw-dropping JWST images of a vast star-forming factory. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
A nearby super-Earth may be a water world The planet TOI-1452b is bigger than Earth and may have a lot more water. By Phil Plait 2 years ago
What reionized the Universe, and when? New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent. By Phil Plait 2 years ago