Nature Astronomy is a new online-only journal, publishing monthly from January 2017. Nature Astronomy is a truly multidisciplinary journal for the field, representing — and fostering closer interaction between — all of the key astronomy-relevant disciplines, by publishing the most significant research, review and comment at the cutting edge of astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science.
Scientists have simulated conditions that allow hazy skies to form in water-rich exoplanets, a crucial step in determining how haziness muddles observations by ground and space telescopes.
Astronomy
16 hours ago
0
59
An international research team led by Michael Kramer and Kuo Liu from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, have studied magnetars to uncover an underlying law that appears to apply universally to ...
Astronomy
Nov 24, 2023
0
87
A team of astrophysicists led by Núria Miret-Roig from the University of Vienna found that two methods for determining the age of stars measure different things: Isochronous measurement thereby determines the birth date ...
Astronomy
Nov 24, 2023
0
26
A team of volcanologists and planetary scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University has found via study of a newly created global ...
Astrophysicists say they have found an answer to why spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are largely missing from a part of our local universe called the Supergalactic Plane.
Astronomy
Nov 20, 2023
3
55
Many organizations, from community sporting groups to the United Nations, have set themselves a target of gender parity: ensuring half of staff or members are women. Gender parity is desirable because training and retaining ...
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2023
2
31
Around the world, research agencies are struggling to achieve gender parity. A paper published in Nature Astronomy reports how a national Australian astronomy center achieved equal numbers of women and men using science.
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2023
0
20
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers from New Jersey Institute of Technology's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have detailed radio observations of an extraordinary aurora-like display occurring ...
Astronomy
Nov 13, 2023
7
646
Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.
Astronomy
Nov 11, 2023
3
154
Gravity data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates Jupiter's atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature ...
Planetary Sciences
Nov 9, 2023
3
7
