An Exo-Venus in the Solar Neighborhood
Why is Earth hospitable to life and Venus not? Kepler-1649b, a newly discovered exo-Venus, may help us figure this out!
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Counting Rogue Asteroids and Comets
How many comets, asteroids, and planetary bodies are floating through interstellar space, not gravitationally bound to any solar system?
Observations from Sunrise
In 2013, a team of scientists gathered in Sweden to launch a balloon carrying the largest solar telescope to leave Earth. Now they’re sharing what they learned from the flight!
Challenging the Model for Galactic Bulges
What determines how much mass will end up in the bulge and the black hole at the center of a Milky-Way-like galaxy?
More Unusual Light Curves from Kepler
Twenty-three new objects have been added to the growing collection of stars that have unusual dips in their light curves.
A Connection Between Corona and Jet
A new study provides us with clues to the relationship between accretion and outflows near the supermassive black holes at the centers of active galaxies.
How Stable is a Light Sail Riding on a Laser Beam?
The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative will send tiny spacecraft to our nearest stellar neighbors. A new study examines how we can successfully propel these spacecraft on their way.
Building Magnetic Fields in White Dwarfs
Some white dwarfs have magnetic fields with strengths of thousands to billions of times that of Earth. A new study examines how these fields might form.
Where Do Messy Planetary Nebulae Come From?
Many planetary nebulae are too “messy” in morphology to be explained by the standard model of how they form.
The Birth of Disks Around Protostars
How do the dusty disks around young stars first form and evolve around their newly born stars?