Tilting WASP-12b Doesn’t Solve the Mystery of Its Inspiral
The hot Jupiter WASP-12b is on a collision course with its host star, and it’s heading that way faster than expected. New research examines a possible explanation for the planet’s speedy inspiraling.
A new catalog of giant pulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar reveals a feature predicted to exist but not seen until now.
Astrobites reports on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which is collecting an infrared spectrum for every point in the sky — potentially revolutionizing our understanding of cosmic inflation, galaxy formation, and interstellar ices.
Last year, gravitational wave detectors triggered on what may have been a collision involving a sub-solar-mass neutron star. New research investigates a potential link between this event and a supernova.
New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.
An Early Discovery by Rubin Observatory
Astrobites reports on the discovery of a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy in preview data taken before the start of Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey.
New radio observations provide the best view yet of the WISPIT 2 planetary system, revealing spiral wakes driven by a growing young planet.
Researchers use stellar pulsations to detect substellar companions around A-type stars — including what could be a first-of-its-kind exoplanet.
Handwritten eclipse observations and sketches of solar prominences from 1733 offer researchers a rare window into a data-poor period of solar history.