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As part of Astrobites coverage of Black Space Week, we interviewed members of the Black in Astro community. Today's interviewee is Dr. Nola Haynes!

Where do the elements on the periodic table come from? Tune into Dr. Ian Roederer's Plenary Lecture at #AAS248 to find out!

As part of Astrobites coverage of Black Space Week, we interviewed members of the Black in Astro community. Today's interviewee is Flore Milien!

For today's bite guest author, Savaria Parrish, explores the prospects for habitability on planets around a class of stellar remnants known as white dwarfs!

Today we interview Milky Way scientist and Central Molecular Zone expert, Prof. Cara Battersby from the University of Connecticut, for her Plenary Talk at #AAS248!

As part of Astrobites coverage of Black Space Week, we interviewed members of the Black in Astro community. Today's interviewee is Amina Diop!

Meet Dr. George Helou: Caltech astronomer, infrared astronomy pioneer, and AAS plenary speaker reflecting on four decades of exploring the universe through infrared light.

Today we interview UCLA planetary scientist David Jewitt, who helped discover the Kuiper Belt and is now studying some of the Solar System’s strangest visitors!

Today we interview solar physicist and 2026 Hale Prize recipient Dr. Yi-Ming Wang about the discoveries that shaped our understanding of the solar wind, the Sun’s magnetic field, and a career built on unexpected turns.

Meet Dr. Carolyn Kierans: 2025 HEAD Early Career Prize winner and the astrophysicist chasing the antimatter at the center of our galaxy.

This guest post was written by Aylin Garcia Soto, a graduating Ph.D. student from Dartmouth University studying M dwarf variability. She will start a postdoc at Boise State University working with Dr. Brian Jackson on tidal decay in exostellar systems. Outside of research, she enjoys reading, watching K dramas (and other dramas), playing guitar, and […]

Welcome to our coverage of AAS 248! We've got interviews with speakers, daily coverage, and so much more to come this week.

Today we interview Solar System scientist and expert in Rubin Observatory data, Prof. Mario Jurić from the University of Washington, for his Plenary Talk at #AAS248!

Meet Dr. Esra Bulbul: 2025 HEAD Mid-Career Prize winner, X-ray cosmologist, and the scientist mapping galaxy clusters to uncover the nature of dark energy.

Meet Dr. Sanmi Koyejo: Stanford computer scientist, AI researcher, and AAS plenary speaker working to make artificial intelligence a more trustworthy partner in scientific discovery.

GW231123 defies our best models of stellar collapse, hosting two black holes that shouldn't exist. A new paper proposes a radical solution: these monsters may have been born in the early universe as primordial black holes, quietly feeding for billions of years until they became the record-breakers we detected today.