New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 IMF is important in many areas of astronomy, and it’s relied on especially heavily in studies of distant galaxies. The light from these galaxies is dominated by high-mass stars, with the emission ...
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 ...
Not all brightness variations present in a star’s light curve are due to stellar variability — instrumental systematics and artifacts from the spacecraft’s orbital period can produce periodic ...
After that relatively lengthy phase, the process proceeds rapidly: as the planet inches deeper into its star, the drag forces grow stronger and the planet’s demise accelerates, with the planet ...