Featured Image: An Asteroid-Impact Test on Earth
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will slam into an asteroid today. Back home on Earth, researchers carried out an impact experiment of their own.
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Featured Image: Ice in the Shadow of Mercury’s Craters
Modeling of spacecraft images suggests that a permanently shadowed crater on Mercury could contain a thick layer of water ice.
Featured Image: First Images of a Substellar Companion in the Hyades
A directly imaged object in the nearest star cluster to Earth may help researchers understand how substellar objects evolve over time.
Featured Image: A Twisted Magnetic Rope
Three-dimensional modeling of a passing solar storm reveals a new twist to the event’s magnetic field.
Featured Image: A Bar in the Andromeda Galaxy
Researchers present new evidence that our galactic neighbor, Andromeda, hosts a central bar of stars.
Featured Image: A Survey of Disk Galaxy Halos
A survey of nearby galaxies seeks to understand the connection between diffuse, extended galaxy halos and the formation histories of the galaxies they belong to.
Featured Image: The Battle for Star Formation at Taffy Bridge
When galaxies clash, is star formation heightened or quenched? The Taffy galaxies (UGC 12914/5) provide an excellent setting to probe this question.
Featured Image: Modeling Realistic Dust Grains
Dust grains may be tiny, but slight changes in their shapes can have huge implications for our understanding of disks around young stars.
Featured Image: A Shock Surrounding a Black Widow Pulsar
New images of a rare phenomenon may help astronomers understand pulsars that consume their stellar companions.
Featured Image: Deep Imaging of a Radio Relic
Nearby galaxy cluster Abell 2256 is home to some amazing radio structures, which new observations have revealed in greater detail than ever before.