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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Primordial Planetesimals in Simulated Water-Rich Disks To test if these water-rich dense cores within Pop III supernova remnants could form planetesimals, the building blocks of terrestrial planets, ...

Getting these spacecraft to their destination will be a challenge The thriftiest path to get to Uranus, a trajectory called a Hohmann transfer that’s been used for other missions aimed elsewhere in ...

PAHs Gone Extragalactic Using JWST, the authors scrutinized Makani for any signs of PAHs. They found that not only did PAHs exist within the galaxy, these molecules were found up to 30 kpc (~100,000 ...