A "lab?" In astronomy? Learn how John Johnson is bringing chemistry to his new group at Caltech.

Are you an undergraduate researcher? Read what a Caltech professor has to say about why what you're doing is important and why you're going to be better at it than you ever thought.

Are you planning on going to grad school? Check out what the chair of the graduate admissions committee at Caltech has to say about getting into a program like his.

What's the best way to sample a banana? A new code implements an efficient solution to this and other Bayesian inference problems.

An essay on the observational science of astronomy in the twenty-first century and my own experiences training in the field, which won Harvard University's 2012 Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Students ...

We think many galaxies we see today had mergers and interactions in their past, but how can we know for sure? Bonfini et al. look to evidence from a subtle pattern in the distribution of globular ...

Astrobites looks back at its first year as the astro-ph reader's digest.

The latest episode in the saga of GJ1214b appeared on the arXiv Wednesday.

Examines velocity evolution and intrinsic colors of Type Ia supernovae.

Fumagalli et al. may have observed the first example of metal-free gas untouched after the Big Bang.

Some galaxies get all the metals, but the dSphs surrounding the Milky Way seem to have lost

What aspects of a star's life are affected by its rate of rotation? Just about everything!

We can use galaxy clusters for many different science goals, but first we need to figure out where they are.

Miszalski et al. show that the well-known planetary nebula Abell 70 has a white dwarf companion at its center with a messy past.

I just vacuumed my apartment and asked the question, 'how does so much dust accumulate in one week?' These authors ask a more scientifically interesting question: how can galaxies accumulate more ...

What will happen if Cygnus X-1 evolves to become a system of two massive, compact objects (and will we ever find out)?

What do grad students do all day? Read on for more than a dozen personal reports from the field.

A 2011 article for GradHacker about being an astronomy graduate student.

SN 2009nz may be the sixth GRB-supernova ever confirmed spectroscopically.

Star formation at the center of galaxies can be triggered by both internal and external processes. In their new work, Ellison et al. argue that the internal processes may be more important.