Peas in a Pod?
Neighboring exoplanets appear to come in similar sizes. But is this a result of observational bias?
The Sun vs. Your Uncle: Chromosphere Edition
What does your uncle have in common with the Sun? Find out in this bite about a new discovery in the Sun’s atmosphere!
A Protoplanetary Disk with a Tail
The sites of planet formation seem to be anything but orderly and a recent discovery may help explain the observed wide variety of exoplanet configurations.
Understanding how massive star clusters form in our Universe
Today’s paper looks at how young massive star clusters are expected to form.
Looking for a dark matter needle in an X-ray stack
Can an unexplained signal found inside multiple galaxy clusters tell us something about dark matter? Find out about a tantalising indirect detection by X-ray astronomers.
Reading the Epic of Reionization
Observations of dim galaxies lensed by foreground clusters provides a way of measuring the progression of reionization.