Erika K. Carlson, Author at Astronomy.com

This huge, distant galaxy formed all its stars really fast

Scientists chart the shifting colors of a comet’s “seasons”

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Uranus and Neptune’s differences might boil down to collisions

See the most detailed picture of the Sun’s surface ever taken

Robotic Spaceflight, The Sun

You can listen to the solar wind thanks to NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

Space Exploration

How Spitzer’s infrared eyes helped astronomers unlock the invisible universe

Exotic Objects, Stars

This super-bright supernova might be the result of colliding stars

Exoplanets, Planets

The ancient Earth atmosphere may have been mostly carbon dioxide

Meteorite impact 2 billion years ago may have ended an ice age

Human Spaceflight, The Moon

Making air from Moon dust: Scientists create a prototype oxygen plant

Milky Way, Science

New high-energy gamma-ray sources found in the galaxy

Exotic Objects, Milky Way, Stars

Four strange new objects found around the Milky Way’s huge black hole