New simulations suggest the outer solar system could disassemble within about one billion years after the Sun becomes a white dwarf.

Last year, gravitational wave detectors triggered on what may have been a collision involving a sub-solar-mass neutron star.

Astrobites reports on the discovery of a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy in preview data taken before the start of Vera C. Rubin ...

A new catalog of giant pulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar reveals a feature predicted to exist but not seen until now.

New radio observations provide the best view yet of the WISPIT 2 planetary system, revealing spiral wakes driven by a growing ...

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The authors find that the mass of the galaxy is 0.21 x 10 12 solar masses, the circular velocity of the galaxy at the maximum radius they look at (21.1 kpc) is 206 km/s, and the virial radius is 1.28 ...

Luckily, one transit astronomer’s trash data can be a pulsation timer’s treasure. For some A-type stars called δ Scuti stars, the pulsation is regular enough to be used like a cosmic clock. Subtle ...

Not all brightness variations present in a star’s light curve are due to stellar variability — instrumental systematics and artifacts from the spacecraft’s orbital period can produce periodic ...

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The premise is not far-fetched: at the ripe old age of nearly 14 billion years, the Milky Way has likely gulped down neighboring dwarf galaxies and globular clusters multiple times. When a black hole ...

To make matters more interesting, the same research team reported weak evidence for dimethyl sulfide, a compound that on Earth forms almost exclusively due to life. This led many onlookers to the ...