Astrobites reports on the discovery of a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy in preview data taken before the start of Vera C. Rubin ...

New radio observations provide the best view yet of the WISPIT 2 planetary system, revealing spiral wakes driven by a growing ...

Researchers use stellar pulsations to detect substellar companions around A-type stars — including what could be a ...

Join us in Salt Lake City, UT, 10–14 January 2027 for exceptional science at the 249th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Register today! The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the ...

Wassenius penned a short account of his observations in Latin for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (the longest-running scientific journal in the world!). His drawings of the event, ...

Does this relationship extend to shorter-period giant planets as well? Hot Jupiters are heavily impacted by tidal interactions with their host stars, circularizing their orbits and erasing dynamical ...

For a relatively simple concept, the IMF is shaped by incredibly complicated underlying physical mechanisms. Things like turbulence, magnetic fields, and chemical enrichment all play a role in shaping ...

To make this identification, Chen’s team used archival Hubble Space Telescope and MMT data to examine the location of the planetary nebula candidate M279 within the Andromeda Galaxy. The researchers’ ...

The 58th meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences will take place 25–30 October 2026 in Spokane, WA. Register today! The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the major organization of ...

The 58th meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences will take place 25–30 October 2026 in Spokane, WA. Register today! The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the major organization of ...

Figure 2: Left: A plot of the observed versus predicted stellar velocity dispersion assuming the kinematics of the gas and stars in the dense galaxy contributing to the broad line emission. In the ...