Two Mars Express Visual Monitoring Camera views of the crescent of Mars, each showing the bright, narrow Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud streaming westwards from the volcano. Credit: ESA/GCP/UPV/EHU Bilbao, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

This Week in Astronomy: Martian Ice From Nothing, Heavy Alcohol and a Planet With Two Births

Artist's impression of an extreme debris disk: a blue ring of dust encircling a star, with a bright yellow and orange flash where a planetary embryo has just been struck by a larger body. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

This week in astronomy: shattered planets, cosmic hydrogen and a newborn magnetar

Artist's illustration of the first generations of hot, massive stars igniting inside glowing clouds of primordial hydrogen and helium gas in the early Universe. Credit: NASA, STScI/A. Schaller.

This week in astronomy: weak winds, early worlds and wandering black holes

Artist's concept of the newly confirmed planet Elias 2-24 b, a young Jupiter-mass world glowing within a gap in the dusty protoplanetary disc still encircling its parent star. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko.

This Week in Astronomy: The Youngest Planet We Have Ever Found

A deep Dark Energy Camera image of a crowded field of faint galaxies, with two inset boxes marking a Type Ia supernova in a nearby spiral galaxy and a much more distant quasar. Credit: DES Collaboration/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani

This Week in Astronomy: Dark Energy Wobbles, and the Smallest Worlds Beyond Neptune

Two Black Holes

Black Hole Merger Validates Core Predictions of General Relativity

SMBH

The Direct Measurement of A Black Hole Mass During the Era of Reionisation

Solar Wind

Measurement of Pickup Ions in the near-Earth Solar Wind

Perseverance Rover

Detections of PAHs on Mars Hint at Biological Origin

Black hole

Singularities are Harder to Avoid than we Thought

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