Choosing Stars to Search for Habitable Planets
A recent study examines which stars make the best targets when searching for habitable exoplanets.
A recent study examines which stars make the best targets when searching for habitable exoplanets.
The recent discovery of high-energy gamma-ray emission from Arp 220 reveals more about how supernovae interact with their environments.
Where do most of the globular clusters in today’s universe reside? A recent study answers this question.
The recent discovery of a hyper-velocity binary star system in the halo of the Milky Way poses a mystery: how was this system accelerated to its high speed?
Recent ALMA observations reveal beautiful concentric ring structure within the protoplanetary disk that surrounds a young, Sun-like star.
Enormously bright supernovae have been observed in recent years. But is there a limit on the brightness these stellar explosions can achieve?
A recent study explores how two types of planets — super-Earths and super-puffs — might form.
A new study seeks to explain how pure disk galaxies — galaxies without a central bulge — were able to form and survive in our universe.
Meet your new AAS Lead Editor for the High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics corridor! Here’s what he thinks about his field, the upcoming HEAD meeting, and authoring scientific papers.
After 10 years of unsuccessful searching, how likely is it that pulsar-timing-array projects will make their own first detection of gravitational waves soon?
Recent observations have provided direct measurements of the extreme temperature swings in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HD 80606 b.
The Caterpillar Project is a series of high-resolution cosmological simulations designed to teach us about how galaxies like the Milky Way formed and evolved.