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From Bad Astronomy: The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars

It’s not that a planet on a one-day orbit getting torched by its star is so peculiar, it’s that a Jupiter-sized planet is so close to it.

If Earth were moved out to the orbit of Neptune, would it still be considered a planet? Turns out, yup.

Tonight, NASA hopes for a bullseye with their DART mission, which will slam into the small asteroid moon Dimorphos.

Neptune, the last known major planet in the solar system gets its close-up from JWST, and the infrared view is spectacular.

NASA’s Mars lander InSight “heard” an asteroid ramming through the Martian atmosphere, breaking apart, and slamming into the surface.

Astronomers have found a new record-breaker, the closest black hole yet found, at 1,570 light-years from Earth.

From Bad Astronomy: Astronomers find the death cry of a star in a cluster long ago and not so very far away

A large icy moon may have broken up and created Saturn’s iconic rings and also tipped the planet itself over by a hefty amount.

Star GJ 896 gets tossed around by its giant planet, GJ 896Ab. It’s a binary star and the planet orbits at a wildly tipped angle.

Incredible new images from JWST and Keck show massive stars in the Orion Nebula eating itself from the inside out.

Mars' Perseverance rover landed in a Martian lake bed… so why are so many of the rocks around it from volcanic eruptions?

New method for identifying small craters from asteroid impacts that occurred within the past 12,000 years: Look at what burned around them.

Two exoplanets a little bit bigger than Earth found orbiting a faint red dwarf star; one is in the habitable zone, so it may be temperate.

An exoplanet forming around a very young star has been found, pretty much just where astronomers predicted it would be.

JWST images of the incredible Tarantula Nebula, a soul-stompingly huge star-forming cloud in a nearby galaxy.

Exoplanet TOI-1452b is a super-Earth about 100 light-years away, and it may very well be a waterworld, covered in oceans.

A billion years after the Big Bang, the Universe became transparent, and stayed that way. Why? And, exactly, when?