Stellar evolution

Latest research

1. Wave-driven mixing enhanced by rotation in red giant branch stars

   • Simon Blouin
   • Paul R. Woodward
   • Falk Herwig

   in Nature Astronomy

   Article 29 December 2025

   

2. Photometric evolution unveils debris generation process of rocket bodies in geostationary transfer orbits

   • Qingwei Qiao
   • Yiding Ping

   in Scientific Reports

   Article Open access 19 December 2025

   

3. Unveiling Morphological Plasticity: A Rare Six-Armed Brittle Star, Ophiolepis superba from the Gulf of Mannar, India

   • Hussna Nazar
   • T. K. Teena Jayakumar
   • T. T. Ajith Kumar

   in National Academy Science Letters

   Article 12 December 2025

   

4. The status of \(^{12}\)C+\(^{12}\)C fusion process

   • Alessandro Chieffi
   • Sandrine Courtin
   • Michael Wiescher

   in The European Physical Journal A

   Article Open access 11 December 2025

   

5. Exploring the binary origin of B and Be rapid rotators

   • Jonathan Labadie-Bartz
   • Mark Suffak
   • Jeremy J. Drake

   in Astrophysics and Space Science

   Article 11 December 2025

   

6. Photometric analysis of TCP J20171288+1156589 - WZ Sge type dwarf nova with delayed ordinary superhumps emergence

   • Alexander Tarasenkov
   • Sergey Shugarov
   • Sjoerd Dufoer

   in Astrophysics and Space Science

   Article 11 December 2025

   

7. Spectral and temporal properties of ultraluminous X-ray sources in NGC 4602 with XMM-Newton

   • Dayananda Mayanglambam
   • Praveen Kangjam
   • A. Senorita Devi

   in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

   Article 09 December 2025

   

8. Variability of the H\(\alpha \) chromospheric activity of solar-like stars revealed by the time-domain data of the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey

   • Han He
   • Ali Luo
   • Song Wang

   in Astrophysics and Space Science

   Article 08 December 2025

   

9. Discovery of a transitional type of evolved massive star with a hard ionizing flux

   • Andreas A. C. Sander
   • Roel R. Lefever
   • Jorick S. Vink

   in Nature Astronomy

   Article 05 December 2025

   

10. Multiple outflows and delayed ejections revealed by early imaging of novae

    • Elias Aydi
    • John D. Monnier
    • Anna V. Payne

    in Nature Astronomy

    Article Open access 05 December 2025

    

11. Abundant supernova dust and heterogeneous aqueous alteration revealed by stardust in two lithologies of asteroid Bennu

    • Ann N. Nguyen
    • Laura B. Seifert
    • Dante S. Lauretta

    in Nature Astronomy

    Article Open access 02 December 2025

    

12. Emilkowalski Family Formation Scenario Based on Modeling of the Probabilistic Evolution of Asteroid Orbits

    • E. D. Kuznetsov
    • A. S. Perminov
    • V. S. Safronova

    in Solar System Research

    Article 27 November 2025

    

13. Evolution of multicellularity genes in Cyanobacteria in the lead up to the great oxidation event

    • Joanne S. Boden
    • Mercedes Nieves-Morión
    • Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo

    in Communications Biology

    Article Open access 27 November 2025

    

14. Dynamics of apsidal motion in non-synchronous binary pulsars: coupled orbit and spin evolution

    • Ali Taani

    in Astrophysics and Space Science

    Article 26 November 2025

    

15. A large, long-lived, slowly-expanding superbubble across the Perseus arm

    • Bingqiu Chen
    • Guangxing Li
    • Ashley Coombs

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 26 November 2025

    

16. Radiative Transfer in Solar Prominences: An Overview and Current Trends

    • Petr Heinzel
    • Stanislav Gunár

    in Solar Physics

    Article Open access 26 November 2025

    

17. Impact of rotation on the accretion of entropy perturbations in collapsing massive stars

    • Olzhas Mukazhanov

    in Astrophysics and Space Science

    Article 26 November 2025

    

18. Spin transition in magnesiowüstite and ultralow thermal conduction in ultralow velocity zones

    • Wen-Pin Hsieh
    • Frédéric Deschamps
    • Fei Wang

    in Nature Communications

    Article Open access 25 November 2025

    

19. Non-static, torsion-inspired hyperbolically symmetric stars with anisotropy and dissipation

    • Naveed Iqbal
    • S. Khan
    • M. Ilyas

    in The European Physical Journal C

    Article Open access 21 November 2025

20. Tuning into a massive stellar storm on the radio

    in Nature

    Article 19 November 2025

    

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