First Disrupted Star for a New Survey
The Zwicky Transient Facility is officially open for business, and it’s already watched a black hole tear apart a star.
The Zwicky Transient Facility is officially open for business, and it’s already watched a black hole tear apart a star.
Astrobites explores the possibility that a local void is messing with our measurements of the Hubble constant along the cosmic distance ladder.
Super-puffs — fluffy planets with abnormally low densities — are a problem: according to theoretical models, they shouldn’t exist.
How can the behavior of Earth’s oceans help us understand chemical abundances in red-giant stars?
More than a year after the first confirmed neutron-star merger, we’re still learning from new observations.
Astrobites reports on the second detection of a galaxy apparently lacking in dark matter, which has reopened the debate about dark-matter-deficient galaxies.
These beautiful images from a simulation of a Milky-Way-like galaxy capture how gas affects a galaxy’s formation and evolution over time.
A new study explores whether the skies of the TRAPPIST-1 family of planets are likely cloudy or clear.
High-velocity clouds observed in our galaxy’s halo pose a conundrum: given their tenuous nature and large speeds, why haven’t they been ripped apart?
Astrobites reports on what we can gain when we use TESS not only to discover new exoplanets, but also to ‘listen’ to their host stars.
Predictions of crater counts on 2014 MU69’s surface were made in December, before the New Horizons flyby. Will they prove correct? And what can we learn from them?
The inner regions of protoplanetary disks have strong magnetic fields. What effect does the presence of a magnetic field have on planet formation?