Possibility of Detecting Clumsy Asteroids
After observing a planned impact between an asteroid and a spacecraft, astronomers wondered: could we detect colliding pairs of natural asteroids?
The dwarf planet Ceres hosts water ice in cold, shadowed craters. New research suggests that these ice deposits are remarkably young.
The Case of Shrinking Planets
Astrobites reports on whether photoevaporation or core-powered mass loss is more likely to be responsible for the exoplanet radius gap.
If caught just a few days later, SN 2022jox would’ve looked like just another ordinary core-collapse supernova, but early observations set it apart, revealing the gas expelled in the star’s final years
New research explores a way to probe for cracks in special relativity with a subtle measurement of gamma-ray photons.
One person’s space junk is another’s research opportunity: scientists study an artificial object mistaken for an asteroid to understand how to identify these objects in future surveys.
Astrobites reports on how astronomers use pulsating stars to look for stellar halos around ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, some of the smallest galaxies in the universe.
A new suite of supernova simulations allows researchers to find correlations between the properties of these cosmic explosions and properties of the stars they came from.
Cosmic Rays Near and Far
How do cosmic rays move through the galaxy? Thanks to data collected by the aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, astronomers are closer to finding out.