From @qwasistellar.bsky.social: Artemis, AI, Astronomy, and our place in it. The author asks why do astrophysics at all. To produce results faster, or to turn graduate students into inefficient stand-ins for software? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/10/tell-me-why-a-case-for-humane-astrophysics/

From Kasper Zoellner: Characterising exoplanet atmospheres is one of the primary challenges for the coming decades and absolutely essential for our understanding. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/13/exoplanets-in-a-bottle-how-laboratory-experiments-help-us-understand-distant-planets/

From Serat Saad: A new solution to Einstein’s general relativity suggests wormholes could be real and traveling through them might be possible. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/11/wormholes-might-be-more-real-than-we-thought/

From Joe Williams: How do astrophysicists research and model planet formation in protoplanetary discs? Learn how to simulate a protoplanetary disc using DustPy: software commonly used in state-of-the-art research! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/09/simulating-protoplanetary-discs/

From @kelsie137.bsky.social: In the race to resolve the tension between cosmological and local measurements of the Hubble constant, another method enters the contest… using gravitational wave signals without an electromagnetic counterpart!! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/08/hubbles-dark-horse/

From @astroneal.bsky.social: What if JWST’s early massive galaxies are not overestimated, but underestimated? A bottom-heavy IMF could hide tons of mass in faint stars. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/07/too-massive-too-early/

From @evannelles.bsky.social: Nothing beats the feeling of finding what you’re looking for. You can imagine the authors excitement when they received transmission spectroscopy data of sub-Neptune, TOI-270d. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/06/admiring-the-atmospheric-egg-shell-of-sub-neptune-toi-270d/

From @jaidai.bsky.social: The LHAASO collaboration tackle a gamma ray mystery in the LS I +61 303 system, investigating just who (or what) might be responsible. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/04/gamma-rays-lhaaso-lsi61303/

From @laurie-amen.bsky.social: Lenses aren’t always made of glass, sometimes they’re made of dark matter! How can we tell primordial black holes apart from dark black holes using gravitational microlensing. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/02/deblurring-dark-compact-objects-with-microlensing/

From Nathan Whitsett: Artemis II successfully launched on April 1st, 2026! But, why are we going back over 53 years later? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/05/a...

There is a tradition in Astronomy to post silly science papers to the arXiv on Aprils Fools day. We’ve collected them all for 2026 and provided some “peer review”. astrobites.org/2026/04/06/april-fools-2026/

From Skylar Grayson and Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas: A survey of physics and astronomy departments across the country has shown that degrees in astronomy can be pretty different. Read more about the AAS SURGE committee’s findings and recommendations! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/01/surge-findings/

From Chris Layden: Today’s paper is about a star that has spun its neutron star companion back up, recycling it into a millisecond pulsar. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/31/transitional_millisecond_pulsar/

From Nicki Bond: In today’s paper, we explore how blazar light curves can be transformed into music and the benefits of this for both scientists and science communication. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/30/dancing-with-the-blazars/

From @astronokaz.bsky.social: Today’s bite explores life on the vegetation red edge…and how we might find it on other worlds. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/28/r...

From Kasper Zoellner: Whether you’re looking for a new way to organize your thoughts or just want to experiment with a different workflow, Obsidian offers a refreshing, local-first approach to note-taking. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/27/an-introduction-to-obsidian-for-the-busy-astronomer/

From @neevshah101.bsky.social: A direct descendant of the first stars! Read today’s bite to learn how the authors found it. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/26/child-of-first-stars/

From Viviana Cáceres: Only a tiny fraction of black hole binaries produce gravitational waves with measurable eccentricity. What does the eccentricity distribution tell us about how these binaries formed? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/25/pinhole-eccentricity-distribution/

From Grace Piroscia: Today’s authors propose upgrades to the VLTI that will allow us to search for signs of life on distant worlds. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/23/guest-a-pricey-path-to-habitable-planets-expanding-the-vlti-to-directly-probe-exoplanets/

From Jared Bull: Moons are abundant within our own solar system, but astronomers have historically struggled to find moons (exomoons) within other systems beyond our own. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/24/hunting-for-exomoons-around-a-lonely-planet/

From guest Affan Khadir: One of the closest galaxy clusters is Fornax, and it was recently studied in detail using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/20/guest-the-closest-look-into-the-largest-nearby-cosmic-structures-a-foray-into-the-fornax-galaxy-cluster/

From Sarah Stevenson: If you have a cosmic mystery on your hands, surely it helps to examine it from as many angles as possible? Today’s authors do that, literally, while investigating the highest-energy particles in the universe. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/21/auger-uhecr-spectrum-2025/

With Earth Week just over a month away, this year’s theme is "Green telescopes for the pale blue dot": how can we build and design the instrumentation and hardware that we use every day in a sustainable manner? Save the dates and join the conversation! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪

From Michelle Park: What do a galaxy’s stellar clumps tell us about how it formed? Today’s guest author Michelle Park explores interesting properties of clumps from the FIRE simulations. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/19/f...

Clumpy galaxies dominate the early universe, yet their local counterparts are hard to find. A new machine‑learning approach learns to spot these hidden clumps and opens the door to studying them in far greater detail. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/18/teaching-machines-to-sport-star-formation/

From @astroryan.bsky.social: There’s no sugar on this doughnut – might we need to ditch tori for large nuclear disks around active galactic nuclei? Today’s authors peer deep into NGC 4151 to find out! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/17/ngc-4151-with-my-binocular-eyes/

From Isha Loudon: It’s looking a little (cosmic) rainy today! And the KM3NeT collaboration make the most of the muon downpour, testing for the presence of some familiar celestial bodies in their data. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/16/sun-moon-shadows-km3net/

Today’s PRJ letter presents the largest mass map to date, highlighting large scale structure in the Universe! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/14/decades-des-map/

From Jared Bull: In today’s bite, we’ll be exploring the turbulent skies of WISE 1049AB, one of the closest known systems to our own solar system ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/13/hows-the-weather-looking-on-our-nearest-brown-dwarf-neighbors/

From Flavia Pascal: Today’s bite explores how hydrogen and silicates mix inside these mysterious worlds and what this tells us about their structure and evolution. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/12/mixing-planetary-cocktails/

From @laurie-amen.bsky.social: Today’s bite explores if highly magnetic compact objects called magnetars could explain where the observed background of high-energy neutrinos in our Universe comes from! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/11/neutriyes-neutrino/

From Madison VanWyngarden: Today’s bite explores a new method to find the galaxies hosting the Universe’s first generation of stars ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/10/possible-glimpse-of-the-universes-first-stars/

From @kelsie137.bsky.social: Galaxy-modelers beware! Today’s bite will guide you through an analysis of CEERS2-588, a quirky, UV-luminous, early galaxy discovered by JWST that’s causing issues in our theoretical models! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪astrobites.org/2026/03/09/shes-not-like-the-other-galaxies/

From Skylar Grayson: Today’s paper tests some recent claims that there is a bias in cosmological distance measurements! ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/07/supernovaagebias_rebuttal/

From Munira Hoosain: The MeerKAT Radio Telescope recently detected the most luminous and distant hydroxyl (or OH) maser system – so intense it crossed the threshold from “mega-maser” to “giga-maser”. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/06/meerkat-gigamaser/

From @jaydewst.bsky.social: So we have a pretty good idea of how old the Universe is right? Well according to JWST data, maybe not? Rest assured, today’s bite gets to the bottom of the debate. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/05/how_old_is_the_universe/

From Nicki Bond: How do the eating habits (accretion) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) affect the light emitted for animals in the AGN zoo? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/04/feeding-time-at-the-agn-zoo/

In this latest ep, we explore the theme of fields in astronomy, from gravitational and magnetic fields to ones in some unusual units (🦅™️). Cole takes us on a mythological tour of Lagrange points, and Cormac guides us through the climates of inflated exoplanets. 🔭 astrosoundbites.com/2026/03/02/e...

From @qwasistellar.bsky.social: Hidden amidst far flung icy bodies beyond Neptune, is there a ninth planet in our solar system? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/03/finding-planet-x-hopeless-romance-or-concrete-reality/

Mckenzie Ferrari reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on simulations that might help astronomers identify double-detonation supernovae early in their evolution. aasnova.org/2026/02/24/i... 🧪

Veronika Dornan reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on how astronomers are using JWST to figure out if star clusters are really as old as they seem. aasnova.org/2026/03/03/a... 🔭

From Serat Saad: For the first time, a supermassive black hole is discovered away from its galaxy’s center, exposed when it tears apart a star in a tidal disruption event. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/03/02/a-wandering-supermassive-black-hole-eating-a-star/

From Kaz Gary: Today’s bite explores exoplanets’ newest predator: dark matter. Black holes made up of dark matter may be lying at the hearts of planets…and eating them from the inside out. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/28/exoplanet-black-holes/

From Natalie Price: Take a walk down memory lane with I Zwicky 18, which could be the key to unlocking the secrets of the early universe. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/27/distance-to-izwicky18/

From Tori Bonidie and Magnus L’Argent: Giant mirrors in space to create sunlight at night and an AI data center made up of 1-million satellites are undergoing regulatory approval. How did we get here? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/26/reflect-orbital-ai-data-center/

From Chris Layden: No, it’s not illegal! Astronomers have developed a technique called delta-doping to make detectors that are much better at detecting ultraviolet light. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/26/delta-doped-ccds/

From @neelkolhe.bsky.social: A new study explore how the complex merger history of objects in the group affect its mass estimates. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/25/timing-argument-post-mergers/

From Elise Koo: Astronomers have tuned their radio telescopes to YZ Ceti, and it might be crackling with a magnetic conversation of a star and its planet. Is this a breakthrough detection, or just stellar noise playing tricks on us? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/24/radio_yz_ceti/

From Ben Sherwin: In today’s bite, we explore a new method for studying how structure grows during the Universe’s formative teenage years, using rebellious dropout galaxies and peer-pressured CMB photons. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/02/23/dropout-galaxies-cmb-lensing/

Astrobites is partnering with @blackinastro.bsky.social this year for Black Space Week! If you’d like to register to participate as a writer or interviewee you can fill out the Google Form below or in the QR code in the flyer! The deadline is Friday March 6th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...