Nature Astronomy

Article	Citations
Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus	170
HXMT identification of a non-thermal X-ray burst from SGR J1935+2154 and with FRB 200428	150
Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu	142
A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino	136
Aerosol composition of hot giant exoplanets dominated by silicates and hydrocarbon hazes	136
A peculiar hard X-ray counterpart of a Galactic fast radio burst	132
Multiple subglacial water bodies below the south pole of Mars unveiled by new MARSIS data	122
On the detection of a cosmic dawn signal in the radio background	110
Molecular water detected on the sunlit Moon by SOFIA	106
An X-ray burst from a magnetar enlightening the mechanism of fast radio bursts	103
Spectroscopic confirmation of four metal-poor galaxies at z = 10.3–13.2	99
Interstellar detection of the highly polar five-membered ring cyanocyclopentadiene	98
Hierarchical mergers of stellar-mass black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures	98
Internal mixing of rotating stars inferred from dipole gravity modes	94
The recurrent impact of the Sagittarius dwarf on the star formation history of the Milky Way	90
Resonance locking in giant planets indicated by the rapid orbital expansion of Titan	89
Eccentricity estimate for black hole mergers with numerical relativity simulations	89
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment	87
Measurement of magnetic field and relativistic electrons along a solar flare current sheet	87
Concepts and status of Chinese space gravitational wave detection projects	87
Ionized outflows from active galactic nuclei as the essential elements of feedback	87
China’s first mission to Mars	82
A fundamental mechanism of solar eruption initiation	82
A protostellar system fed by a streamer of 10,500 au length	79
Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z > 10	78

Detection of two bright radio bursts from magnetar SGR 1935 + 2154	78
Evidence for GN-z11 as a luminous galaxy at redshift 10.957	74
A strangely light neutron star within a supernova remnant	72
A non-energetic mechanism for glycine formation in the interstellar medium	71
Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar	70
The sonic scale of interstellar turbulence	69
Optical follow-up of the neutron star–black hole mergers S200105ae and S200115j	69
Highly polarized microstructure from the repeating FRB 20180916B	68
Discovery of oscillations above 200 keV in a black hole X-ray binary with Insight-HXMT	68
Images of embedded Jovian planet formation at a wide separation around AB Aurigae	67
First compositional analysis of Ryugu samples by the MicrOmega hyperspectral microscope	67
An Ice Age JWST inventory of dense molecular cloud ices	67
Distribution and habitability of (meta)stable brines on present-day Mars	66
Event Horizon Telescope observations of the jet launching and collimation in Centaurus A	66
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	65
Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way	64
Micro cold traps on the Moon	63
Unusually high CO abundance of the first active interstellar comet	63
HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon	63
Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s	63
The carbon footprint of large astronomy meetings	62
A diffuse core in Saturn revealed by ring seismology	61
Fresh emplacement of hydrated sodium chloride on Ceres from ascending salty fluids	61
The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov	61
Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds	61
Contemporary formation of early Solar System planetesimals at two distinct radial locations	61
Lunar regolith and substructure at Chang’E-4 landing site in South Pole–Aitken basin	60
Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies	57
Availability of subsurface water-ice resources in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars	56
Direct evidence for shock-powered optical emission in a nova	56
The global current systems of the Martian induced magnetosphere	55
Exogenic basalt on asteroid (101955) Bennu	55
Probable detection of an eruptive filament from a superflare on a solar-type star	54
A pristine record of outer Solar System materials from asteroid Ryugu’s returned sample	54
Detection of the Milky Way reflex motion due to the Large Magellanic Cloud infall	53
Transit detection of the long-period volatile-rich super-Earth ν2 Lupi d with CHEOPS	53
A peculiarly short-duration gamma-ray burst from massive star core collapse	53
Magnetized filamentary gas flows feeding the young embedded cluster in Serpens South	53
Hopes and concerns for astronomy of satellite constellations	52
Impact-driven mobilization of deep crustal brines on dwarf planet Ceres	52
Potential PeVatron supernova remnant G106.3+2.7 seen in the highest-energy gamma rays	52
Indications of stellar coronal mass ejections through coronal dimmings	52
The imperative to reduce carbon emissions in astronomy	51
Geomorphic contexts and science focus of the Zhurong landing site on Mars	51
An investigation of spectral line stacking techniques and application to the detection of HC11N	50
Re-detection and a possible time variation of soft X-ray polarization from the Crab	50
The origin and evolution of magnetic white dwarfs in close binary stars	50
An experimental study of the surface formation of methane in interstellar molecular clouds	50
No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus from independent analyses	49
Ubiquitous aromatic carbon chemistry at the earliest stages of star formation	49

The electron-capture origin of supernova 2018zd	49
Thermally altered subsurface material of asteroid (162173) Ryugu	48
Weakened magnetic braking supported by asteroseismic rotation rates of Kepler dwarfs	47
The ecological impact of high-performance computing in astrophysics	47
Water activity in Venus’s uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres	47
Burst timescales and luminosities as links between young pulsars and fast radio bursts	46
Coupling between the accreting corona and the relativistic jet in the microquasar GRS 1915+105	45
Evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole from a gravitationally lensed gamma-ray burst	45
Evidence for a vast prograde stellar stream in the solar vicinity	45
Reconnection nanojets in the solar corona	44
Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b	44
Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System’s planetary architecture	44
High-frequency heating of the solar wind triggered by low-frequency turbulence	42
An inherited complex organic molecule reservoir in a warm planet-hosting disk	42
An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert	42
Tidal fragmentation as the origin of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua)	41
A disk-dominated and clumpy circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way seen in X-ray emission	41
A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity	41
Discovery of ubiquitous lithium production in low-mass stars	41
A rich population of free-floating planets in the Upper Scorpius young stellar association	41
Martian water loss to space enhanced by regional dust storms	40
An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy	40
Collisional history of Ryugu’s parent body from bright surface boulders	40
Rapid contraction of giant planets orbiting the 20-million-year-old star V1298 Tau	40
Detecting fundamental fields with LISA observations of gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals	39
A Lyman-α protocluster at redshift 6.9	39
The impact of satellite constellations on space as an ancestral global commons	39
The population of M dwarfs observed at low radio frequencies	38
Ubiquitous velocity fluctuations throughout the molecular interstellar medium	37
The case for space environmentalism	37
Carbon star formation as seen through the non-monotonic initial–final mass relation	37
GW190521 as a dynamical capture of two nonspinning black holes	37
The case for a minute-long merger-driven gamma-ray burst from fast-cooling synchrotron emission	37
Variable structures in M87* from space, time and frequency resolved interferometry	36
Highly ordered magnetic fields in the tail of the jellyfish galaxy JO206	36
State-of-the-art energetic and morphological modelling of the launching site of the M87 jet	35
The origin of galaxy colour bimodality in the scatter of the stellar-to-halo mass relation	34
A very early origin of isotopically distinct nitrogen in inner Solar System protoplanets	34
Quiescent ultra-diffuse galaxies in the field originating from backsplash orbits	34
Galaxies lacking dark matter produced by close encounters in a cosmological simulation	33
Simulations of solar filament fine structures and their counterstreaming flows	33
A hot subdwarf–white dwarf super-Chandrasekhar candidate supernova Ia progenitor	33
Gamma-ray haloes around pulsars as the key to understanding cosmic-ray transport in the Galaxy	33
Sulfur-driven haze formation in warm CO2-rich exoplanet atmospheres	33
An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 b-i	33
A gravitationally lensed supernova with an observable two-decade time delay	33
The origin of underdense plasma downflows associated with magnetic reconnection in solar flares	33
Recent cryovolcanic activity at Occator crater on Ceres	32
Most lithium-rich low-mass evolved stars revealed as red clump stars by asteroseismology and spectroscopy	32
Fast magnetic field amplification in distant galaxy clusters	32
A hidden population of high-redshift double quasars unveiled by astrometry	32
An X-ray-quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud	32
Evidence of non-uniform crust of Ceres from Dawn’s high-resolution gravity data	31
Anomalously porous boulders on (162173) Ryugu as primordial materials from its parent body	31
The faint light in groups and clusters of galaxies	31
The REACH radiometer for detecting the 21-cm hydrogen signal from redshift z ≈ 7.5–28	31
Solar differential rotation reproduced with high-resolution simulation	30
Delayed radio flares from a tidal disruption event	30
Accelerated, scalable and reproducible AI-driven gravitational wave detection	30
An extremely energetic supernova from a very massive star in a dense medium	30
A new class of fossil fragments from the hierarchical assembly of the Galactic bulge	30
Broadband X-ray burst spectroscopy of the fast-radio-burst-emitting Galactic magnetar	30
Organic molecules revealed in Mars’s Bagnold Dunes by Curiosity’s derivatization experiment	29
AstroSat detection of Lyman continuum emission from a z = 1.42 galaxy	29
Demonstration of stellar intensity interferometry with the four VERITAS telescopes	29
Bayesian analysis of Enceladus’s plume data to assess methanogenesis	29
An energetic hot wind from the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus M81*	28
A snapshot of the oldest active galactic nuclei feedback phases	28
The formation of dusty cold gas filaments from galaxy cluster simulations	28
Reconstructing the formation history of top-shaped asteroids from the surface boulder distribution	27
Radio pulsations from a neutron star within the gamma-ray binary LS I +61° 303	27
Haze evolution in temperate exoplanet atmospheres through surface energy measurements	27
Space science with CubeSats and nanosatellites	27
Isotopic fractionation of water and its photolytic products in the atmosphere of Mars	27
Evidence for three-dimensional spin–velocity alignment in a pulsar	27
A supra-massive population of stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster Palomar 5	27
Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b	26
Signatures of strong magnetization and a metal-poor atmosphere for a Neptune-sized exoplanet	26
Fermi and eROSITA bubbles as relics of the past activity of the Galaxy’s central black hole	26
Strong toroidal magnetic fields required by quiescent X-ray emission of magnetars	26

A concordance scenario for the observed neutrino from a tidal disruption event	26
An observed correlation between galaxy spins and initial conditions	26
New maser species tracing spiral-arm accretion flows in a high-mass young stellar object	26
A rich hydrocarbon chemistry and high C to O ratio in the inner disk around a very low-mass star	25
Determination of X-ray pulsar geometry with IXPE polarimetry	25
Alkali metals in white dwarf atmospheres as tracers of ancient planetary crusts	25
Global helium abundance measurements in the solar corona	25
Evidence of extensive lunar crust formation in impact melt sheets 4,330 Myr ago	25
A sublimated water atmosphere on Ganymede detected from Hubble Space Telescope observations	25
Nested dust shells around the Wolf–Rayet binary WR 140 observed with JWST	25
An upper limit on late accretion and water delivery in the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system	25
Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays	25
Reply to: No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus from independent analyses	24
Anoxic chemical weathering under a reducing greenhouse on early Mars	24
Estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures	24
COVID-19 lockdown effects on gender inequality	24
Possible observational evidence for cosmic filament spin	24
The origin of reconnection-mediated transient brightenings in the solar transition region	24
Evidence for the connection between star formation rate and the evolutionary phases of quasars	24
An astronomical institute’s perspective on meeting the challenges of the climate crisis	24
Updated lunar cratering chronology model with the radiometric age of Chang’e-5 samples	24
The challenge of satellite megaconstellations	24
Ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves from cosmological and astrophysical processes	24
Spin state and moment of inertia of Venus	23
eROSITA’s X-ray eyes on the Universe	23
A JWST transmission spectrum of the nearby Earth-sized exoplanet LHS 475 b	23
China’s ambitions and challenges for asteroid–comet exploration	23
Chemical evidence for planetary ingestion in a quarter of Sun-like stars	23
A universal correlation between warm and hot gas in the stripped tails of cluster galaxies	23
Stellar mergers as the origin of the blue main-sequence band in young star clusters	23
Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework	22
Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Earth-radius planet	22
Solar wind contributions to Earth’s oceans	22
Hunting for massive black holes in dwarf galaxies	22
Tectonics of Cerberus Fossae unveiled by marsquakes	22
Forging a path to a better normal for conferences and collaboration	22
Evidence for a compact object in the aftermath of the extragalactic transient AT2018cow	22
A fast-rising tidal disruption event from a candidate intermediate-mass black hole	22
High-energy emission from a magnetar giant flare in the Sculptor galaxy	21
A likely flyby of binary protostar Z CMa caught in action	21
The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole	21
Imprints of cosmological tensions in reconstructed gravity	21
Resolving the solar prominence/filament paradox using the magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor instability	21
Observations of luminous infrared galaxies with the Spitzer Space Telescope	21
Quantum sensor networks as exotic field telescopes for multi-messenger astronomy	21
Deep sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging of the Lockman Hole field at 144 MHz	21
Persistent plasma waves in interstellar space detected by Voyager 1	20
Macro and micro structures of pebble-made cometary nuclei reconciled by seasonal evolution	20
The large obliquity of Saturn explained by the fast migration of Titan	20
Stringent axion constraints with Event Horizon Telescope polarimetric measurements of M87⋆	20
Cold gas removal from the centre of a galaxy by a low-luminosity jet	20
It’s time for some plane speaking	20
Definitive upper bound on the negligible contribution of quasars to cosmic reionization	20
The Sun’s dynamic extended corona observed in extreme ultraviolet	19
Laboratory studies on the viability of life in H2-dominated exoplanet atmospheres	19
Dust/ice mixing in cold regions and solid-state water in the diffuse interstellar medium	19
Formation of intermediate-mass planets via magnetically controlled disk fragmentation	19
Dynamical evidence for Phobos and Deimos as remnants of a disrupted common progenitor	19
Identification of plasma modes in Galactic turbulence with synchrotron polarization	19
A pathway to peptides in space through the condensation of atomic carbon	19
A Solar System formation analogue in the Ophiuchus star-forming complex	19
Observational constraints on stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies	19
Stellar dynamics and dark matter in Local Group dwarf galaxies	19
The future of astronomy with small satellites	19
A roadmap for planetary caves science and exploration	19
Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar	18
Infant-phase reddening by surface Fe-peak elements in a normal type Ia supernova	18
Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets	18
Addendum: Phosphine gas in the cloud deck of Venus	18
Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov	18
A major ice component in Pluto’s haze	18
Millisecond pulsars from accretion-induced collapse as the origin of the Galactic Centre gamma-ray excess signal	18
Early terrestrial planet formation by torque-driven convergent migration of planetary embryos	18
Composition of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres from meteorite outgassing experiments	18
Transforming gas-rich low-mass disky galaxies into ultra-diffuse galaxies by ram pressure	18
Multi-scale feedback and feeding in the closest radio galaxy Centaurus A	17
Predicted diversity in water content of terrestrial exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs	17
High-resolution detection of neutral oxygen and non-LTE effects in the atmosphere of KELT-9b	17
Impact-driven disproportionation origin of nanophase iron particles in Chang’e-5 lunar soil sample	17
Formation of secondary atmospheres on terrestrial planets by late disk accretion	17
Early fluid activity on Ryugu inferred by isotopic analyses of carbonates and magnetite	17
Torsional oscillations within a magnetic pore in the solar photosphere	17
Active galactic nuclei as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope	17
The impact of climate change on astronomical observations	17
Discovery of high-frequency retrograde vorticity waves in the Sun	17
Astrophysical constraints from the SARAS 3 non-detection of the cosmic dawn sky-averaged 21-cm signal	17
Fluctuations in Jupiter’s equatorial stratospheric oscillation	17
A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest	17
Discovery of post-mass-transfer helium-burning red giants using asteroseismology	16
A relic from a past merger event in the Large Magellanic Cloud	16
Highlights of exoplanetary science from Spitzer	16
The Milky Way’s plane of satellites is consistent with ΛCDM	16
Towards a solution to the energy crisis	16
Stochastic accretion of the Earth	16
Unveiling the population of dual and lensed active galactic nuclei at sub-arcsec separations	15