SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Bad Astronomy 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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months ago Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebed is surprisingly volcanic Igneous rocks provide a timeline to a crater lake. By Phil Plait | 4 months 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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months ago The infrared heart of the Tarantula New jaw-dropping JWST images of a vast star-forming factory. By Phil Plait | 4 months 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 | 4 months ago What reionized the Universe, and when? New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Load More
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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months ago
Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebed is surprisingly volcanic Igneous rocks provide a timeline to a crater lake. By Phil Plait | 4 months 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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months 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 | 4 months ago
The infrared heart of the Tarantula New jaw-dropping JWST images of a vast star-forming factory. By Phil Plait | 4 months 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 | 4 months ago
What reionized the Universe, and when? New observations may tell us when the cosmos became transparent. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
