As Different As Day and Night
Finding water on exoplanets is exciting enough, but we may also be able to use signs of water to learn more about a planet’s atmosphere.
Finding water on exoplanets is exciting enough, but we may also be able to use signs of water to learn more about a planet’s atmosphere.
Could the biggest — literally — gravitational-wave discovery yet be something other than what it initially seemed?
Astrobites explores the unusual X-ray properties of an active galactic nucleus recently caught changing its appearance.
Scientists may have an explanation for the strange kinks recently observed in streams of plasma flowing off of the Sun.
The collisions of neutron stars and black holes may be the key to unlock precise measurements of the cosmological parameters that describe our universe.
In 2019, Sgr A* woke up to emit a series of burps. What meal led to this indigestion?
Chemical tagging without chemical abundances? Astrobites shows how a neural network can disentangle stellar data to spot a star’s origins.
More than 1,200 newly discovered strong gravitational lenses create cosmic arcs, rings, and copied images.
A recent study couples Cassini observations with ground-based ones to study how galactic cosmic rays interact with our Sun.
New work has revealed the likely origins of 23 streams of stars in our galaxy’s halo.
We’ve detected many fast radio bursts, but the journey to discover their origins is far from complete. Astrobites reports on the latest efforts.
How old is the terrain of Mars’s surface? New research suggests our previous estimates were off.