Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02671-y
Paul Woods
{"title":"The carbonaceous heart of the Butterfly","authors":"Paul Woods","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02671-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41550-025-02671-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"9 9","pages":"1284-1284"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02672-x
Bokyoung Kim
{"title":"Colliding in open clusters","authors":"Bokyoung Kim","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02672-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41550-025-02672-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"9 9","pages":"1285-1285"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02673-w
Lindsay Oldham
{"title":"The bubbles that reionized the Universe","authors":"Lindsay Oldham","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02673-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41550-025-02673-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"9 9","pages":"1286-1286"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02654-z
Jason D. Hofgartner
{"title":"A new probe of Pluto’s changing atmosphere","authors":"Jason D. Hofgartner","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02654-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41550-025-02654-z","url":null,"abstract":"Pluto’s atmosphere varies dramatically over a solar orbit but is challenging to monitor. Thermal emission by haze in Pluto’s atmosphere was detected with JWST and could be used to track the atmosphere’s evolution.","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"9 9","pages":"1288-1289"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02653-0
Rongqiao Zhang, He Zhang, Jianjun Liu, Yan Geng, Linzhi Meng, Wei Sun, Jianfeng Xie, Yan Su
{"title":"Small-body exploration with an in situ probe","authors":"Rongqiao Zhang, He Zhang, Jianjun Liu, Yan Geng, Linzhi Meng, Wei Sun, Jianfeng Xie, Yan Su","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02653-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41550-025-02653-0","url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese Tianwen-2 mission will perform a double fly-by of two small bodies, sampling a near-Earth asteroid and returning samples to Earth before continuing towards a main-belt comet.","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"9 9","pages":"1404-1404"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02678-5
{"title":"A century of supernovae","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02678-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41550-025-02678-5","url":null,"abstract":"Supernovae were first recognized a hundred years ago, and despite much progress in understanding these catastrophic cosmic explosions, several fundamental properties remain to be determined. A deluge of high-cadence observations from new facilities and the availability of fast computers will accelerate the field into the next century.","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"9 9","pages":"1281-1281"},"PeriodicalIF":14.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02678-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The signature of subgalactic dark matter clumping in the global 21-cm signal of hydrogen","authors":"Hyunbae Park, Rennan Barkana, Naoki Yoshida, Sudipta Sikder, Rajesh Mondal, Anastasia Fialkov","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02637-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02637-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is thought that the Universe went through an early period known as the Dark Ages, during which primeval density fluctuations grew to form the first luminous objects, marking the beginning of cosmic dawn around 100 million years after the Big Bang. The 21-cm line of hydrogen atoms is the most promising probe of these epochs, with extensive observational efforts underway. Here we combine hydrodynamical simulations with a large-scale grid to precisely calculate the effect of nonlinear structure formation on the global (sky-averaged) 21-cm radio intensity. We show that it presents a potential opportunity to probe the properties of dark matter in a new regime, corresponding to a length-scale of only 150,000 light years and a mass scale of 20 million solar masses. This effect can in principle be detected unambiguously during the Dark Ages, where the weak signal requires an array of global signal antennae. During cosmic dawn, when stellar radiation boosts the signal, a single global antenna suffices, but the clumping effect must then be separated from the effect of the stars. Our findings open new avenues for testing the nature of dark matter as well as non-standard cosmological models.</p>","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145067845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature AstronomyPub Date : 2025-09-15DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02646-z
{"title":"Perseverance rover finds evidence for organics preserved in sulfates on Mars","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02646-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02646-z","url":null,"abstract":"Intriguing signals have been detected by the Perseverance rover from the floor and fan top of the Jezero crater on Mars. Laboratory investigations provide insight into the origin of these signals, identifying aromatic organic molecules — polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — preserved in sulfates.","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ukrainian wartime astronomy and its prospects","authors":"Danilo Albergaria, Kateryna Frantseva, Pedro Russo, Svitlana Babiichuk, Oksana Berezhna, Sofiia Denyshchenko, Daria Dobrycheva, Vadym Kaydash, Olena Kompaniiets, Oleksander Konovalenko, Yurii Kulinich, Igor Lukyanyk, Vladyslava Marsakova, Bohdan Novosyadlyj, Elena Panko, Volodymyr Reshetnyk, Ivan Slyusarev, Iurii Sushch, Ganna Tolstanova, Iryna Vavilova, Liubov Yankiv-Vitkovska, Yaroslav Yatskiv, Vyacheslav Zakharenko","doi":"10.1038/s41550-025-02657-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02657-w","url":null,"abstract":"The Russian invasion of Ukraine damaged or compromised astronomical facilities and has prompted the displacement of researchers. A plan to restore Ukrainian astronomy, rooted in a deeper integration with the international community, is now being developed.","PeriodicalId":18778,"journal":{"name":"Nature Astronomy","volume":"313 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}