Articles about AAS

Illustration: Asteroid 2025 MN45 and other rocks in the main asteroid belt

Rubin Observatory spots an asteroid that spins fast enough to set a record

A nearly half-mile-wide space rock called 2025 MN45 makes one full revolution in less than two minutes. Read More

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope scores big at America’s premier astronomy meeting

It’s not yet clear whether the Seahawks will be in the Super Bowl, but Seattle is in the spotlight this… Read More

NASA’s TESS probe chalks up its first Earth-sized planet in habitable zone, plus a ‘Tatooine’ planet

Astronomers report that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has detected its first Earth-sized planet lying in its parent… Read More

Could Barnard’s Star harbor an icy home for life? Astronomers weigh the options

Where’s the nearest exoplanet with conditions that are right for life? Over the past couple of years, astrobiologists have talked… Read More

Supernova leftovers preserve evidence of a messy blowup that wrecked two stars

In what sounds like a cosmic episode of “CSI,” sleuthing astronomers have figured out what touched off a stellar explosion… Read More

Scientists look for new ways to track the technosignatures of alien civilizations

Could extraterrestrial civilizations leave their fingerprints as chlorofluorocarbons in planetary atmospheres, or the waste heat generated by industrial processes, or… Read More

Canadian radio telescope takes the search for puzzling fast radio bursts into a new era

A new radio telescope in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley has detected 13 new sources of mysterious extragalactic phenomena known as… Read More

Hubble team has bad news for aliens: Red dwarfs seem to wipe out life’s necessities

Red dwarf stars have been seen as the biggest potential frontier for alien life, in part because they’re the most… Read More

TESS planet-hunters add a ‘sub-Neptune’ world to discovery list, with more to come

Less than a year after NASA’s TESS spacecraft was launched, the scientists behind the mission have unveiled their third confirmed… Read More

3-D views reveal ‘Orion’s Dragon’ in space

Spectral readings from the Orion Nebula have charted the cosmic weather patterns for powerful stellar winds that have created a… Read More

‘Oumuamua’s discovery points to plethora of interstellar objects in our galaxy

The cigar-shaped object known as ‘Oumuamua may be the first interstellar interloper to be discovered, but it’s not likely to… Read More

Government shutdown is putting a damper on science in Seattle and elsewhere

It’s been called the “Super Bowl of Astronomy,” but when the American Astronomical Society’s winter meeting plays out in Seattle… Read More