Imitation is the greatest form of flattery: Introducing massive Mercury doppelganger HD 137496 b
You’ve heard of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes… but what about a super-Mercury?
From star parties to observatories: an astronomer’s journey
Zili Shen reflects on observatory trips and what she loves about observing.
UR: Using Gaussian Processes to Study Exoplanet Transits and Stellar Variability Simultaneously
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Larissa Palethorpe finds a way to get more information out of transit light curves.
Video Did Not Kill the Radio Star
What if the northern lights danced around the poles of…stars? Today’s authors investigate strange radio emission from our smallest stellar neighbors.
What will happen to Jupiter when the Sun dies?
The Sun will become a white dwarf. Will any Solar System planets survive?
How was the universe reionized? Cosmic sunbursts provide hints
How does the radiation that caused reionization travel out of galaxies? Studying a strongly-lensed system called the Sunburst Arc could tell us more.