For the first time, physicists at LLNL have demonstrated how an asteroid or comet impact could have created Stickney crater without destroying Phobos completely
“Our findings are a bit of a course correction for the scientific community, but this is how the scientific process works; it’s a normal part of the ongoing debate," researcher explains
Called CubeSats, swarms of these small marvels could potentially take on NASA's riskiest missions, at a lower cost than full-size, multi-instrument satellites
The orbit of such a planet had been expected to be unstable, probably resulting in the planet being quickly ejected from the system, but somehow this one survives