20 May 2019
A thin layer of ice-trapped gas stops Pluto's oceans from freezing
... bulge region – means that Sputnik Planitia has what is called a positive gravity anomaly. Put simply, this means that the area has more gravity than predicted by models of the dwarf planet. One way to contribute to the...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
...from the black hole than we originally thought and the light isn't so affected by the object's extreme gravity," said S. Bradley Cenko, Swift's principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. In total, astronomers...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... run deep, really deep. Using new high-resolution gravity data and imaging from Dawn to model the region ... many unknowns when it comes to ocean worlds especially ones under low-gravity conditions like Ceres. What is needed, says Castillo-Rogez, is ...
16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
... as a simple, no-moving-parts experiment to study the settling effects of regolith, as very little is known about the low-gravity geological processes on the surfaces of small bodies, explained Durda at the time. The improved BORE II experiment built...
