A Martian Meal
Vegetables have been harvested from Lunar and Martian-like soils for the first time. Will future space settlers be able to grow their own gardens?
How to grow a galaxy
How do galaxies grow? Today’s featured paper investigates the role of mergers between galaxies in assembling the most massive nearby galaxies.
Spins in Protoplanetary Discs
Today we have a guest post from Arazi Pinhas about the spins of protoplanetary disks.
Searching for Exo-Ios
Despite years of searching, we’ve yet to find an “exomoon”.
The authors of today’s paper suggest a new way to find them. Instead of the optical telescopes favoured by exoplanet searches, Noyola et al. turn to the giant radio telescopes. They suggest that they could be able to detect signals from extrasolar equivalents of one of the Solar system’s most extreme objects: Jupiter’s moon Io.
Understanding a Monster: the structure of a massive galaxy
M87 is a monstrous galaxy on our doorstep in astronomical terms. But do we understand how such a massive galaxy is put together?
A Repeating FRB
Mysterious, brief bursts of radio have been detected many times from what looks to be the same source for the first time.