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Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets'

4 July 2019

We haven’t found any moons around exoplanets, which may be because they are flung away and turn into “ploonets” - a fate that could one day befall our own moon

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Exomoons that run away from their planets could become 'ploonets'

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