Featured Image: The Last Asteroid Pair Discovered by Arecibo
The 1,000-foot-wide Arecibo Telescope discovered nearly 60 binary or triple asteroid systems. 2020 BX12 was the final binary asteroid discovered with Arecibo before the telescope collapsed in 2020.
With hundreds of pairs of merging black holes now detected via gravitational waves, researchers can investigate the sites of black hole mergers across the universe.
Life on the (Red) Edge
Astrobites reports on a surface biosignature called the vegetation red edge and how we might find it on other worlds.
Playing Pool with Planets
A new study suggests that warm and hot Jupiters, despite looking different today, underwent the same dynamical evolution when they were younger.
The new observations show that the asteroid will safely pass by the Moon at a distance of more than 20,000 kilometers.
Astrobites reports on new mid-infrared observations that allow researchers to probe the structure of active galactic nuclei.
Researchers observed Weywot, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Quaoar, as it briefly blotted out the light from a star.
A recent study looks at the star and dust morphologies across samples of massive galaxies to understand how dusty star-forming galaxies fit into the picture of massive galaxy evolution.
During its commissioning phase, the highly anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory serendipitously spotted the third known interstellar object.