Astrophysics

Solar System

Astronomy summer school radar observations shine new light on near-Earth asteroid

Exotic Objects, Robotic Spaceflight

Swift reveals a black hole bull’s-eye

Cosmology

Huge new survey to shine light on dark matter

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Neptune’s badly behaved magnetic field

Exotic Objects

Some long-duration gamma-ray bursts are driven by magnetars

Cosmology

Cosmology looks beyond the standard model

Cosmology, Milky Way

Rings and loops in the stars: Planck’s stunning new images

Exoplanets, Planets, Stars

Astronomers see pebbles poised to make planets

Exoplanets, Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Before New Horizons, one telescope started it all

Exotic Objects

Unexpectedly little black hole monsters rapidly suck up surrounding matter

Science

Web Extra: Gamma rays’ long road toward Fermi

Galaxies

Magnetic field discovery gives clues to galaxy-formation processes