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Little Red Dots may just be the Shaqs of the galaxy world: extreme and impressive, but not a new kind of object.

The authors of today’s bite explore how lunar mountains and crust can act as the perfect detector for detecting ripples in spacetime.

Euclid is delivering millions of galaxy images, far too many for humans to classify by hand. A new approach uses sparse autoencoders to uncover the hidden morphological features inside deep learning models, revealing both familiar structures and entirely new ones.

Astronomers have discovered an RR Lyrae variable star inside an open cluster for the first time! But this oddball star just might end up challenging our understanding of how RR Lyraes evolve.

How did our galaxies get so dusty so fast? Come with us today to do some early-epoch spring cleaning.

Much is still unknown about how Saturn’s rings came to be, but today’s authors shed some light on the structure by looking right into the darkness…

Core collapse supernovae sometimes lead to spinning black holes and gamma ray bursts. In this astrobite, we explore the results of a recent simulation of these "collapsar" systems to understand the impact of neutrino cooling on the black hole spin and subsequent gamma ray bursts.

In need of inspiration for astronomy videos to watch? Look no further! We have gathered a list of some of the greatest YouTube communicators out there.

In need of inspiration for astronomy videos to watch? Look no further! We have gathered a list of some of the greatest YouTube communicators out there.

What have we learned from the space probes that visited asteroids Itokawa, Ryugu, and Bennu? Quite a lot about the early, forming Solar System - which might include some prehistoric biology…

Tidal disruption events can happen when stars are torn apart by a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. Guest author, Mary Ogborn, explains how tidal disruption events can help us see when supermassive black holes wander away from their galaxy's centre.

Whether you are already a fan of Greek mythology or someone who only vaguely remembers Icarus from a long-forgotten school lesson, today's Astrobite will show you that flying too close to the Sun (and its consequences) is more than a myth when it comes to extremely hot exoplanets.

What if the ingredients for life did not bubble up from a pond or vent, but fell from space as dust? A new paper suggests ancient glaciers may have collected this cosmic dust, concentrated it, and helped kick-start prebiotic chemistry.

Did you know that many observed black holes theoretically shouldn’t exist? Today’s paper gathers gravitational wave evidence for how these impossible black holes might have formed.

The email asking you to referee your first paper is coming. Here's a practical, step-by-step guide for that exact moment, built from the AAS peer review workshop.

We cannot travel back in time, but we can still try to reconstruct how planets evolved from the clues they leave behind today. In this Astrobite, we explore how L 98-59 d’s atmosphere and interior models reveal a molten world still being reshaped by its host star.

Today we explore how Einstein Telescope might be the instrument to indirectly see (or hear..?) dark matter!

Today's authors search for low frequency radio bursts following gamma-ray bursts to test its emission mechanism!

Some stars hide a strange ingredient in their atmospheres: the remains of a planet they devoured. It turns out to be more common than expected.