Astrophysics

Exotic Objects, Science, Stars

Fast radio bursts might come from nearby stars

Exoplanets, Planets

Astronomers solve temperature mystery of planetary atmospheres

Exotic Objects

New neutrino cooling theory changes understanding of neutron stars’ surfaces

Astronomy for beginners, Exoplanets, Science

Astronomy 101: Chemistry in space

Exotic Objects, Science

Glimpsing the infrastructure of a gamma-ray burst jet

Science

European Space Agency decides on next large mission concepts

Exotic Objects, Stars

Mach 1,000 shock wave lights supernova remnant

Science

How can the Sun’s and Earth’s gravities provide a Lagrangian point on the side of Earth opposite the Sun? Don’t their combined gravities equal each other only at locations between the objects?

Alien Life, Exoplanets, Exotic Objects, Galaxies, Planets, Solar System, Stars, The Moon, The Sun

The past year’s other huge space stories

Cosmology

IceCube pushes neutrinos to the forefront of astronomy

Cosmology, Science

Missions study “watershed” cosmic explosion in unparalleled detail

Stars

Spitzer and ALMA reveal a star’s bubbly birth