tidal forces CHEOPS reveals WASP-103b: An egg-shaped planet that's definitely hard boiled WASP-103b is cooked and distorted by its host star. By Phil Plait 4 months ago The newly formed Moon may have tidally heated the Earth The Moon was so close it would've loomed huge in the sky. By Phil Plait 5 months ago Watch a black hole tear half a dozen stars to shreds Simulations show how stars can survive a black hole. By Phil Plait 5 months ago An ancient remnant of a galactic collision encircles the Sombrero Galaxy By Phil Plait 9 months ago A black hole tore a star apart and played with the debris By Phil Plait 1 year ago Astronomers get a front row seat to a star getting torn apart by a huge black hole By Phil Plait 1 year ago Titan has had *enough* of Saturn, leaving the planet 100X faster than expected By Phil Plait 1 year ago Is the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua a fragment of a shattered alien world? By Phil Plait 2 years ago Think time is too short now? 70 million years ago a day was only 23.5 hours long By Phil Plait 2 years ago Exoplanet-hunting observatory TESS sees a star torn apart by a black hole By Phil Plait 2 years ago
CHEOPS reveals WASP-103b: An egg-shaped planet that's definitely hard boiled WASP-103b is cooked and distorted by its host star. By Phil Plait 4 months ago
The newly formed Moon may have tidally heated the Earth The Moon was so close it would've loomed huge in the sky. By Phil Plait 5 months ago
Watch a black hole tear half a dozen stars to shreds Simulations show how stars can survive a black hole. By Phil Plait 5 months ago
Astronomers get a front row seat to a star getting torn apart by a huge black hole By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Titan has had *enough* of Saturn, leaving the planet 100X faster than expected By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Is the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua a fragment of a shattered alien world? By Phil Plait 2 years ago
Think time is too short now? 70 million years ago a day was only 23.5 hours long By Phil Plait 2 years ago
