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Modelling future trajectories in astrophysics finds it will take 60 years before women form even a third of academic workforces. Targets and affirmative action reduce the wait, but systemic cultural change is needed for more immediate equity.
Planets assemble by energetic collisions between rocky bodies, releasing energy sufficient to generate primitive atmospheres. New laboratory experiments capture this process in action by direct measurement of gases released from heated meteorites.
Tidal disruption events are an excellent probe for supermassive black holes in distant inactive galaxies because they emit bright multi-wavelength flares that last several months to years. AT2019dsg represents the first potential association of neutrino emission with such an explosive event.
The Mars Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) project aims at determining the regions where near-surface ice is most likely to be present, according to the combination of all the available datasets. Focusing on the northern mid-latitudes, they identify in particular Deuteronilus Mensae and Arcadia Planitia as promising sites.
The largest ever simulation of astrophysical turbulence substantially improves our understanding of how energy injection on large interstellar scales governs how stars form on small scales.
