Taking the gravitationally lensed redshift z = 6.2 star Earendel as an example, researchers show that the presence of sub-galactic dark matter subhalos can change the interpretation of a lensed source.

JWST collected a dozen new spectra of warm circumstellar dust circling white dwarfs with metal-polluted spectra, showing evidence for replenishment of dust grains on year or decade timescales.

Analysis of rapid-neutron-capture elements in fossilized stromatolites — layered deposits of cyanobacteria — leave open the possibility of multiple isotopic transport mechanisms in the cosmos.

Models of accretion disk spectra show that warped and broken disks do not radiate like the multicolor blackbodies used to model accreting stellar-mass black holes, unless the disks break at large radii.

Researchers have shown that the bright knots of gas from the red hypergiant star VY CMa amount to 0.02 solar mass of gas ejected 200 years ago in an active period lasting 30 years.

Long-term observations of the pulsar PSR B1310+18A reveal it to be 700–850 million years old, with a helium white dwarf companion weighing 0.39 solar mass.