Three years into the survey, a 9-Earth-mass exoplanet candidate has been confirmed; unlike many of the other known exoplanets of similar size and orbit, the newly confirmed planet has no known siblings.

Molecular dynamics computations explore how tightly bound certain minerals are to the surfaces of planetary bodies; crystal orientation and other factors affect this value, complicating the investigation.

Simulations show that vortices are capable of creating rings and gaps like those made by planets; however, vortices are significantly more effective at opening gaps than planets are.

Misaligned dusty disks around young binary stars can precess and eventually end up in a polar orbit; future radio arrays may be capable of detecting the centimeter-sized dust grains involved in the resulting “traffic jams.”

A purported hot Jupiter gets rebranded as a low-density precursor to a sub-Neptune that may lose its atmospheric envelope entirely within a billion years.

Exploring both ends of the pulsar spectrum, researchers have discovered a millisecond pulsar and two long-period pulsars, including the slowest-spinning pulsar discovered so far.