SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Planets Earth’s core is speeding up and slowing down Go home, Earth’s core. You’re drunk. By Phil Plait | 6 days ago A lack of wind keeps a dull haze layer around Uranus Uranus is very similar to Neptune, but looks very different. By Phil Plait | 4 weeks ago The solar system is really messed up (and it might mean Planet 9 exists) Blame it on gravity. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 month ago Ceres may be an invader from the outer solar system It’s the largest world in the asteroid belt, but it may not have been born there. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago Uranus got its moons when a big rocky planet whacked it. Maybe. Planet-on-planet giant impact may explain a lot of weirdness with Uranus. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago Planets might still be able to crawl out of dying stars It's not zombification, but it kind of is. By Elizabeth Rayne | 4 months ago We live in a star system more alien than most The way that our solar system was shaped by pressure bumps and rings made it unusual in more than one way. By Elizabeth Rayne | 5 months ago Some planets want to be giants when they grow up (and they grow faster than we thought) Planets can grow into monsters in much less time than something that huge was thought to reach "adulthood." By Elizabeth Rayne | 6 months ago Newly found ultrahot exoplanet has a 16-hour year… and is also doomed Exoplanet has the shortest orbit ever seen for a gas giant. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago Hubble takes a series of giant outer planet family portraits Gas giant photos c/o Hubble. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Load More
Earth’s core is speeding up and slowing down Go home, Earth’s core. You’re drunk. By Phil Plait | 6 days ago
A lack of wind keeps a dull haze layer around Uranus Uranus is very similar to Neptune, but looks very different. By Phil Plait | 4 weeks ago
The solar system is really messed up (and it might mean Planet 9 exists) Blame it on gravity. By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 month ago
Ceres may be an invader from the outer solar system It’s the largest world in the asteroid belt, but it may not have been born there. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago
Uranus got its moons when a big rocky planet whacked it. Maybe. Planet-on-planet giant impact may explain a lot of weirdness with Uranus. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago
Planets might still be able to crawl out of dying stars It's not zombification, but it kind of is. By Elizabeth Rayne | 4 months ago
We live in a star system more alien than most The way that our solar system was shaped by pressure bumps and rings made it unusual in more than one way. By Elizabeth Rayne | 5 months ago
Some planets want to be giants when they grow up (and they grow faster than we thought) Planets can grow into monsters in much less time than something that huge was thought to reach "adulthood." By Elizabeth Rayne | 6 months ago
Newly found ultrahot exoplanet has a 16-hour year… and is also doomed Exoplanet has the shortest orbit ever seen for a gas giant. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
Hubble takes a series of giant outer planet family portraits Gas giant photos c/o Hubble. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
