Isabella CorcilloWhat Makes Something A Planet, According To An Astrophysicist?Forbes - Ethan SiegelEver since 2006, when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the term planet — introducing the term 'dwarf planet' to classify Pluto, Eris, Ceres and others — the scientific community has been split in two. Only you have enough mass to pull yourself into a spheroid, orbit the …
Isabella CorcilloThe Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs BosonQuanta Magazine - Natalie WolchoverNo new particles have been found at the Large Hadron Collider since the Higgs boson in 2012, but physicists say there’s much we can still learn from …
Isabella CorcilloHeisenberg's Astrophysics Prediction Finally Confirmed After 80 YearsForbes - Ethan SiegelDiscovering that our Universe was quantum in nature brought with it a lot of unintuitive consequences. The better you measured a particle's position, the more fundamentally indeterminate its momentum was. The shorter an unstable particle lived, the less well-known its mass fundamentally was. Solid, …
Isabella CorcilloWhy Space Fanatics Are Freaking Out About SpaceX's Next Launchverified_publisherGizmodo - Maddie StoneFollowing a successful Falcon 9 launch-and-barge-landing in California this month, SpaceX is now looking to get back in the swing of regular flight. …
Isabella CorcilloAn asteroid is about to slip between Earth and the moon — the second near miss in 3 weeksverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Dave MosherLess than 3 weeks ago, while America was getting the kids to school and arriving at work, an asteroid the size of a building slipped past Earth from a distance about halfway to the moon. Now a similar space rock is about to zoom by our helpless planet. The new near-Earth object (NEO), dubbed asteroid …
