A rendering of two purple jets streaming away from a central explosion.
Features

An Impostor Explosion

Hoping to find the second kilonova to be detected in both gravitational waves and light, astronomers ended up with a supernova instead.

NIRCam JADES image

JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be evidence of black hole stars in the early universe.

Illustration of two white dwarfs about to merge

Astrobites reports on whether a distant companion in a triple-star system could push the inner binary toward merging into a remnant object that emits fast radio bursts.

Observations of a galaxy cluster during the universe’s star-formation heyday give clues to the cluster’s history.

Dinkinesh and Selam

The Lucy mission has provided insights into the craters, boulders, and other surface features of the asteroid Dinkinesh and its small satellite, Selam.

simulation of a supermassive black hole binary system

Astronomers search for spacetime ripples from a possible supermassive black hole binary at the heart of the elliptical galaxy 3C 66B.

G272.2-3.2

Astrobites reports on an investigation of a runaway star that may have survived its companion going supernova.

Small Magellanic Cloud

Could a recent collision between the two largest satellites of the Milky Way explain the disrupted state of the Small Magellanic Cloud?