A new catalog of giant pulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar reveals a feature predicted to exist but not seen until now.

Last year, gravitational wave detectors triggered on what may have been a collision involving a sub-solar-mass neutron star.

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 ...

Luckily, one transit astronomer’s trash data can be a pulsation timer’s treasure. For some A-type stars called δ Scuti stars, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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, ...