Selections from 2019: Rethinking Carbon Monoxide in the Search for Life
What does the presence of carbon monoxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere tell us in the context of the search for life beyond Earth?
What does the presence of carbon monoxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere tell us in the context of the search for life beyond Earth?
Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua may be part of a larger population of bodies with unusual structure.
Evidence has been found for a giant planet orbiting around a binary that consists of one dead and one living star.
Some astrophysical sources should produce both neutrinos and gravitational waves. What have we learned looking for this simultaneous signal?
Noticed a change in AAS journal keywords? Here’s why we’re using a new system, and what it could do for the field.
One of the fastest spinning radio pulsars known has now been detected to pulse in gamma rays, too.
How a star spins can significantly impact its evolution — yet stellar rotation remains poorly understood. Astrobites reports on what we can learn by studying stellar pulsations.
To study the atmosphere of an exoplanet, it turns out we need to have a solid handle on its mass.
The Planetary Science Journal is a new home for your research articles investigating our own solar system and other planetary systems.
A new study explores what happens when a passing star has a close encounter with a supermassive black hole — and lives to tell the tale.
Supernovae may be among the most powerful events in the cosmos, but astronomers think that companion stars may be able to survive these intense explosions. Astrobites reports.
Observations from a Polish astronomer in the 1600s may be important for understanding a prolonged period of reduced sunspot activity.