There’s a great wave rippling through our galaxy
The dynamics of our galaxy become evermore complicated as today’s authors discover a mysterious wave propagating out towards its outskirts.
The Goldilocks Core: Habitability from the Inside Out
Not just the right temperature for water, but the right chemical recipe: only planets formed in a narrow nitrogen-, phosphorus-, and oxygen-balanced “Goldilocks” zone may keep life’s key ingredients available at their surface.
What happens when you poke a black hole?
Can a sneezing ant destroy a black hole? Regge and Wheeler set out to find out.
Hang On To Your Water, Super-Earths!
We use bottles, and sometimes a Brita, but how do planets store their water? The authors of today’s paper made a model to find out, and to evaluate whether certain planets are good at hanging on to their water or not.
Weathering a Stellar Temper Tantrum: How space weather complicates exoplanet habitability
Exoplanets orbiting the most common stars in our galaxy experience intense space weather, raising questions about their ability to harbor life.
Guest: The on-again, off-again lives of intermittent pulsars
Are we missing out on a crucial stage of pulsar evolution? Guest author Tibby Finn Leeming shows how a lack of data can sometimes be misleading.