Astronomy & Astrophysics

Astronomy & Astrophysics has received a particularly high number of applications for the 2026 A&A Awards.

To ensure that all applications receive the careful consideration they merit, the awardees will now be announced by mid-April 2026.

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How old is the Universe? The oldest stars give us a clue Researchers from the University of Bologna and the AIP and other Institutes proposed a new way to address the “Hubble tension” by comparing estimates of the Universe’s age rather than its expansion ra

AIP Potsdam press release: How old is the Universe? The oldest stars give us a clue
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Article by Tomasetti et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Featured image: Turbulent burning in electron capture supernovae (Holas, A., et al., 2026, A&A, 707, A84)
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Highlight: Three-dimensional mapping of coronal magnetic field and plasma parameters in a solar flare
by Tatyana Kaltman, Sijie Yu, Gregory D. Fleishman, Daniel F. Ryan 2026, A&A, 707, A158
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Featured image: Non-thermal filaments in the cluster Abell 2255 (De Rubeis, E., et al., 2026, A&A, 707, A49)
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Highlight: STRAWBERRY: Finding haloes in the gravitational potential
by Tamara R. G. Richardson, Jens Stücker, Raul E. Angulo 2026, A&A, 707, A117
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Featured image: CH and H2O spectra constraining variations α (Muller, S., et al., 2026, A&A, 706, A365)
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IAA-CSIC press release: New evidence that smaller galaxies also experience cosmic cannibalism
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Article by Sakowska et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Featured image: Tracing the interplay between stars and gas in M33 (Feltre, A., et al., 2026, A&A, 706, A367)
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Featured image: GLOSTAR–Effelsberg map of the Galaxy at 4.9 GHz (Gong, Y., et al., 2026, A&A, 706, A230)
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Featured image: The tidal disruption of a rubble-pile Phobos (Agrusa, H. & Michel, P., 2026, A&A, 706, A353)

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Côte d'Azur Obs. press release: Phobos, the Doomed Moon: Why Mars Will Erode and Then Disrupt Its Satellite
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Article by Agrusa & Michel: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

University of Liège Scientists Reveal Similarities Between Auroras on Ganymede and Earth Des observations menées sur la plus grande lune du système soaire révèlent que les processus physiques à l'origine des aurores sont universels et ne se limitent pas aux planètes.

Liège Univ. press release: University of Liège Scientists Reveals Similarities Between Auroras on Ganymede and Earth
www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_136561...

Article by Moirano et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Featured image: Bayesian imaging of LMC SN1987A components (Eberle, V., et al., 2026, A&A, 706, A229)
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Featured image: CO(2–1) velocity maps of the IRAS 04166 outflow (Tafalla, M., et al., 2026, A&A, 706, A248)
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Highlight: Interaction of the central jet with the surrounding gas in the protostellar outflow from IRAS 04166+2706
by M. Tafalla, D. Johnstone, J. Santiago-García, Q. Zhang, H. Shang, C.-F. Lee 2026, A&A, 706, A248
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Highlight: Search and analysis of giant radio galaxies with associated nuclei (SAGAN). VI. When jets meet filaments -- Environmental imprints on the growth of giant radio galaxies
by Mousumi Mahato, Elmo Tempel, Shishir Sankhyayan, et al., 2026, A&A, 706, A310
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Highlight: The superclouds of the local Milky Way
by Lilly A. Kormann, João Alves, Michelangelo Pantaleoni González, Cameren Swiggum, Torsten A. Enßlin, Gordian Edenhofer 2026, A&A, 706, A161
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Featured image: Millimeter-selected clusters and dusty galaxies (Archipley, M., et al., 2026, A&A, 706, A17)
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An unprecedented signal around HD 206893 B : an exomoon candidate revealed by high-precision astrometry – Observatoire de Paris - PSL - Centre de recherche en astronomie et astrophysique A study led by a researcher from the Paris Observatory-PSL within the Laboratory for Instrumentation and Research in Astrophysics (LIRA - CNRS / Sorbonne University / Paris Cité University)…

Paris Obs.-PSL press release: An unprecedented signal around HD 206893 B: an exomoon candidate revealed by high-precision astrometry
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Article by Kral et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Highlight: Pre-perihelion evolution of the NiI/FeI abundance ratio in the coma of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: From extreme to normal
by Damien Hutsemékers, Jean Manfroid, Emmanuël Jehin, et al. 2026, A&A, 706, A43
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MPIfR press release: Probing the jet base of M87's supermassive black hole
www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressrelease...

Article by Saurabh et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Highlight: Investigating the growth of little red dot descendants at z<4 with the JWST
by J.-B. Billand, D. Elbaz, F. Gentile, et al. 2026, A&A, 706, A29
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IRAM press release: Cosmic fireworks 12 billion light-years away: a record-breaking survey by IRAM's 30-meter telescope
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Article by Ponthieu et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
and Lagache et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Barcelona Univ. press release: ICCUB astronomers lead the largest study on massive runaway stars including rotation and binarity in the Milky Way
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Article by Carretero-Castrillo et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

ESA press release: Magnetic avalanches power solar flares
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Article by Chitta et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Featured image: ARKS debris discs: dust (orange) and CO gas (blue) (Marino et al., 2026, 705, A195 ; Mac Manamon et al., 2026, 705, A198 ; and the ARKS collaboration)
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ALMA Reveals Teenage Years of New Worlds - National Radio Astronomy Observatory Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in...

NRAO press release: ALMA Reveals Teenage Years of New Worlds
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Articles by Marino et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

and Mac Manamon et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Featured image: Images zooming in on the main galaxy of the cluster (Han, S., et al., 2026, A&A, 705, A169)
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Intermediate-mass black hole incubators in galactic central regions A study performed at the Astronomical Institute of Charles University shows how intermediate-mass black holes can be forming naturally and frequently, but in the current/local Universe only in the inn...

Matfyz press release: Intermediate-mass black hole incubators in galactic central regions
www.mff.cuni.cz/en/public/ne...

Article by Haas et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...