"It's in the habitable zone, which is super exciting for astrobiology and habitability and searching for life."

The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science...

Artemis, AI, Astronomy, and our place in it. The author asks why do astrophysics at all. To produce results faster, or to turn graduate students into inefficient stand-ins for software? Or because ast...

Giant mirrors in space to create sunlight at night and an AI data center made up of 1-million satellites are undergoing regulatory approval. How did we get here?

Was Venus involved in a catastrophic hit-and-run? Read this astrobite to find out!

As the University of Pittsburgh embarks on union negotiations with graduate students, bargaining over the concept of academic freedom has been contentious.

In this bite, the authors discuss recent changes to the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship, their impact, and what you can do to help.

Astrobites reports on a study that explores whether there are planets hiding from us inside the gaps of multi-planet systems.

It was first proposed that black holes could form directly from the small, random density fluctuations inherent to the chaotic primordial universe. The studies from which the idea emerged — pioneered ...

Atmospheres of transiting exoplanets can be studied spectroscopically using space-based or ground-based observations. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so there are benefits to both approache...

Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, the authors of today’s paper have discovered plasma conditions so peculiar they don't exist anywhere else we've ever explored in the solar system, giving rise to a...

COVID-19 has caused lab and user facility closures, withdrawn job offers, canceled conferences, caused equipment delays, and increased costs for ongoing research. We can counter these threats to resea...

This astrobite will summarize the recent constraints of biosignatures on K2-18 b, answer important questions like “are there aliens?” and “how bad does this biosignature smell?”, and discuss some crit...

Was Venus always a formidable hellscape, or did it once have a temperate climate with liquid water on its surface?

The authors of today’s paper put forth theoretical models of how habitable exoplanets might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) using the molecules present in the Earth’s atmosphere fr…

The authors of today’s papers investigate whether photoevaporation or core-powered mass loss is the more likely culprit for the exoplanet radius gap.

The genocide in Gaza demands our attention and our action. As astronomers and members of the global scientific community, we cannot ignore the immense suffering and devastation inflicted upon our c…

The authors of today’s paper present a detection of a planet orbiting around its middle-aged host star – a star that was predicted to eat any planets in its way. Now the question remains, how does …