A new catalog of the photometric, spectroscopic, and physical properties of galaxies hosting transient events like gamma-ray bursts will aid explorations of the connections between transient events and their host galaxies.
A new imaging technique may provide a way to study very young planets — those that are still accreting material from their protoplanetary disks — and better understand the early stages of planet formation.
Decades of radio observations of the extremely bright center of a galaxy suggest that this galactic center contains something extraordinary: a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting each other every two years.
Astronomers use a new model of galaxy formation stretching back to a redshift of z ~ 12 to predict the scientific returns of a one-square-degree ultra-deep-field image from the upcoming Roman Space Telescope.
Samples returned from the salty surface deposits on Ceres present the best way to assess whether or not the dwarf planet, which has ongoing geological activity in addition to reservoirs of brine, is habitable.
There appear to be no obvious environmental factors that drive the creation of carbon monoxide cores in the star-forming regions of dwarf irregular galaxies, which have extremely low metal abundances.