Nature Astronomy

Article	Citations
Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus	179
HXMT identification of a non-thermal X-ray burst from SGR J1935+2154 and with FRB 200428	160
Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu	158
A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino	147
A peculiar hard X-ray counterpart of a Galactic fast radio burst	139
Multiple subglacial water bodies below the south pole of Mars unveiled by new MARSIS data	134
Spectroscopic confirmation of four metal-poor galaxies at z = 10.3–13.2	129
On the detection of a cosmic dawn signal in the radio background	125
Molecular water detected on the sunlit Moon by SOFIA	115
An X-ray burst from a magnetar enlightening the mechanism of fast radio bursts	108
Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z > 10	107
Hierarchical mergers of stellar-mass black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures	106
Interstellar detection of the highly polar five-membered ring cyanocyclopentadiene	105
Internal mixing of rotating stars inferred from dipole gravity modes	103
Eccentricity estimate for black hole mergers with numerical relativity simulations	99
Concepts and status of Chinese space gravitational wave detection projects	99
Ionized outflows from active galactic nuclei as the essential elements of feedback	98
Measurement of magnetic field and relativistic electrons along a solar flare current sheet	95
An Ice Age JWST inventory of dense molecular cloud ices	95
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment	94
Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates	93
A protostellar system fed by a streamer of 10,500 au length	91
China’s first mission to Mars	87
A fundamental mechanism of solar eruption initiation	86
A strangely light neutron star within a supernova remnant	83

Detection of two bright radio bursts from magnetar SGR 1935 + 2154	82
Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar	78
Images of embedded Jovian planet formation at a wide separation around AB Aurigae	76
Evidence for GN-z11 as a luminous galaxy at redshift 10.957	76
A non-energetic mechanism for glycine formation in the interstellar medium	75
The sonic scale of interstellar turbulence	75
Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s	74
Optical follow-up of the neutron star–black hole mergers S200105ae and S200115j	73
Event Horizon Telescope observations of the jet launching and collimation in Centaurus A	73
Discovery of oscillations above 200 keV in a black hole X-ray binary with Insight-HXMT	73
Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way	72
First compositional analysis of Ryugu samples by the MicrOmega hyperspectral microscope	71
HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon	70
Highly polarized microstructure from the repeating FRB 20180916B	70
Micro cold traps on the Moon	69
The carbon footprint of large astronomy meetings	67
Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies	67
Contemporary formation of early Solar System planetesimals at two distinct radial locations	67
Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds	66
A diffuse core in Saturn revealed by ring seismology	65
Lunar regolith and substructure at Chang’E-4 landing site in South Pole–Aitken basin	62
Fresh emplacement of hydrated sodium chloride on Ceres from ascending salty fluids	62
Availability of subsurface water-ice resources in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars	62
The imperative to reduce carbon emissions in astronomy	61
Probable detection of an eruptive filament from a superflare on a solar-type star	59
Transit detection of the long-period volatile-rich super-Earth ν2 Lupi d with CHEOPS	58
Detection of the Milky Way reflex motion due to the Large Magellanic Cloud infall	58
A pristine record of outer Solar System materials from asteroid Ryugu’s returned sample	58
Exogenic basalt on asteroid (101955) Bennu	58
Geomorphic contexts and science focus of the Zhurong landing site on Mars	56
Magnetized filamentary gas flows feeding the young embedded cluster in Serpens South	56
A peculiarly short-duration gamma-ray burst from massive star core collapse	56
Indications of stellar coronal mass ejections through coronal dimmings	56
The origin and evolution of magnetic white dwarfs in close binary stars	55
Potential PeVatron supernova remnant G106.3+2.7 seen in the highest-energy gamma rays	55
Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System’s planetary architecture	53
Impact-driven mobilization of deep crustal brines on dwarf planet Ceres	53
Titanium oxide and chemical inhomogeneity in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-189 b	53
Water activity in Venus’s uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres	52
No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus from independent analyses	52
The ecological impact of high-performance computing in astrophysics	52
The electron-capture origin of supernova 2018zd	52
An investigation of spectral line stacking techniques and application to the detection of HC11N	51
Thermally altered subsurface material of asteroid (162173) Ryugu	50
Weakened magnetic braking supported by asteroseismic rotation rates of Kepler dwarfs	50
Ubiquitous aromatic carbon chemistry at the earliest stages of star formation	50
Burst timescales and luminosities as links between young pulsars and fast radio bursts	50
Detecting fundamental fields with LISA observations of gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals	49
Martian water loss to space enhanced by regional dust storms	48
High-frequency heating of the solar wind triggered by low-frequency turbulence	48

Evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole from a gravitationally lensed gamma-ray burst	48
Reconnection nanojets in the solar corona	48
The case for a minute-long merger-driven gamma-ray burst from fast-cooling synchrotron emission	48
An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy	48
Coupling between the accreting corona and the relativistic jet in the microquasar GRS 1915+105	47
A rich population of free-floating planets in the Upper Scorpius young stellar association	47
An inherited complex organic molecule reservoir in a warm planet-hosting disk	46
A unique hot Jupiter spectral sequence with evidence for compositional diversity	46
Evidence for a vast prograde stellar stream in the solar vicinity	46
Rapid contraction of giant planets orbiting the 20-million-year-old star V1298 Tau	44
An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert	44
A disk-dominated and clumpy circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way seen in X-ray emission	44
Discovery of ubiquitous lithium production in low-mass stars	43
The population of M dwarfs observed at low radio frequencies	42
The impact of satellite constellations on space as an ancestral global commons	42
Collisional history of Ryugu’s parent body from bright surface boulders	42
Carbon star formation as seen through the non-monotonic initial–final mass relation	41
A gravitationally lensed supernova with an observable two-decade time delay	41
Ubiquitous velocity fluctuations throughout the molecular interstellar medium	41
GW190521 as a dynamical capture of two nonspinning black holes	41
A Lyman-α protocluster at redshift 6.9	40
The case for space environmentalism	40
State-of-the-art energetic and morphological modelling of the launching site of the M87 jet	39
Variable structures in M87* from space, time and frequency resolved interferometry	39
Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b	38
Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar	37
The origin of galaxy colour bimodality in the scatter of the stellar-to-halo mass relation	37
Quiescent ultra-diffuse galaxies in the field originating from backsplash orbits	36
Highly ordered magnetic fields in the tail of the jellyfish galaxy JO206	36
An X-ray-quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud	36
The REACH radiometer for detecting the 21-cm hydrogen signal from redshift z ≈ 7.5–28	36
The origin of underdense plasma downflows associated with magnetic reconnection in solar flares	36
An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 b-i	35
Gamma-ray haloes around pulsars as the key to understanding cosmic-ray transport in the Galaxy	35
The faint light in groups and clusters of galaxies	35
A very early origin of isotopically distinct nitrogen in inner Solar System protoplanets	35
Fast magnetic field amplification in distant galaxy clusters	35
A hidden population of high-redshift double quasars unveiled by astrometry	35
Most lithium-rich low-mass evolved stars revealed as red clump stars by asteroseismology and spectroscopy	34
Accelerated, scalable and reproducible AI-driven gravitational wave detection	34
Solar differential rotation reproduced with high-resolution simulation	34
A supra-massive population of stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster Palomar 5	34
Galaxies lacking dark matter produced by close encounters in a cosmological simulation	34
Signatures of strong magnetization and a metal-poor atmosphere for a Neptune-sized exoplanet	34
A hot subdwarf–white dwarf super-Chandrasekhar candidate supernova Ia progenitor	34
Organic molecules revealed in Mars’s Bagnold Dunes by Curiosity’s derivatization experiment	33
A rich hydrocarbon chemistry and high C to O ratio in the inner disk around a very low-mass star	33
A snapshot of the oldest active galactic nuclei feedback phases	33
Recent cryovolcanic activity at Occator crater on Ceres	33
Evidence of non-uniform crust of Ceres from Dawn’s high-resolution gravity data	33
Anomalously porous boulders on (162173) Ryugu as primordial materials from its parent body	32
Demonstration of stellar intensity interferometry with the four VERITAS telescopes	32
Fermi and eROSITA bubbles as relics of the past activity of the Galaxy’s central black hole	32
Bayesian analysis of Enceladus’s plume data to assess methanogenesis	31
Ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves from cosmological and astrophysical processes	31
A new class of fossil fragments from the hierarchical assembly of the Galactic bulge	31
Delayed radio flares from a tidal disruption event	31
A JWST transmission spectrum of the nearby Earth-sized exoplanet LHS 475 b	31
An energetic hot wind from the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus M81*	30
Broadband X-ray burst spectroscopy of the fast-radio-burst-emitting Galactic magnetar	30
Updated lunar cratering chronology model with the radiometric age of Chang’e-5 samples	30
Space science with CubeSats and nanosatellites	30
Estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures	30
New maser species tracing spiral-arm accretion flows in a high-mass young stellar object	30
Isotopic fractionation of water and its photolytic products in the atmosphere of Mars	30
Determination of X-ray pulsar geometry with IXPE polarimetry	29
Hunting for massive black holes in dwarf galaxies	29
AstroSat detection of Lyman continuum emission from a z = 1.42 galaxy	29
The challenge of satellite megaconstellations	28
The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole	28
Tectonics of Cerberus Fossae unveiled by marsquakes	28
Reconstructing the formation history of top-shaped asteroids from the surface boulder distribution	28
Evidence for three-dimensional spin–velocity alignment in a pulsar	28
Haze evolution in temperate exoplanet atmospheres through surface energy measurements	28
A concordance scenario for the observed neutrino from a tidal disruption event	27
An astronomical institute’s perspective on meeting the challenges of the climate crisis	27
Forging a path to a better normal for conferences and collaboration	27
Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays	27
Nested dust shells around the Wolf–Rayet binary WR 140 observed with JWST	27
Alkali metals in white dwarf atmospheres as tracers of ancient planetary crusts	27

Radio pulsations from a neutron star within the gamma-ray binary LS I +61° 303	27
Chemical evidence for planetary ingestion in a quarter of Sun-like stars	26
An upper limit on late accretion and water delivery in the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system	26
Quantum sensor networks as exotic field telescopes for multi-messenger astronomy	26
An observed correlation between galaxy spins and initial conditions	26
Anoxic chemical weathering under a reducing greenhouse on early Mars	26
Stellar mergers as the origin of the blue main-sequence band in young star clusters	26
Strong toroidal magnetic fields required by quiescent X-ray emission of magnetars	26
Evidence for the connection between star formation rate and the evolutionary phases of quasars	26
China’s ambitions and challenges for asteroid–comet exploration	26
The origin of reconnection-mediated transient brightenings in the solar transition region	25
Stellar dynamics and dark matter in Local Group dwarf galaxies	25
Possible observational evidence for cosmic filament spin	25
Reply to: No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus from independent analyses	25
A sublimated water atmosphere on Ganymede detected from Hubble Space Telescope observations	25
Global helium abundance measurements in the solar corona	25
Spin state and moment of inertia of Venus	25
Definitive upper bound on the negligible contribution of quasars to cosmic reionization	25
COVID-19 lockdown effects on gender inequality	24
A universal correlation between warm and hot gas in the stripped tails of cluster galaxies	24
A fast-rising tidal disruption event from a candidate intermediate-mass black hole	24
Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Earth-radius planet	24
Stringent axion constraints with Event Horizon Telescope polarimetric measurements of M87⋆	24
Imprints of cosmological tensions in reconstructed gravity	23
Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework	23
Radial-velocity discovery of a second planet in the TOI-1338/BEBOP-1 circumbinary system	23
A pathway to peptides in space through the condensation of atomic carbon	23
A likely flyby of binary protostar Z CMa caught in action	23
Evidence for a compact object in the aftermath of the extragalactic transient AT2018cow	23
Solar wind contributions to Earth’s oceans	23
Deep sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging of the Lockman Hole field at 144 MHz	23
Changing-look active galactic nuclei	22
Resolving the solar prominence/filament paradox using the magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor instability	22
Early terrestrial planet formation by torque-driven convergent migration of planetary embryos	22
High-energy emission from a magnetar giant flare in the Sculptor galaxy	22
Macro and micro structures of pebble-made cometary nuclei reconciled by seasonal evolution	22
Observational constraints on stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies	21
Astrophysical constraints from the SARAS 3 non-detection of the cosmic dawn sky-averaged 21-cm signal	21
A roadmap for planetary caves science and exploration	21
Persistent plasma waves in interstellar space detected by Voyager 1	21
Dynamical evidence for Phobos and Deimos as remnants of a disrupted common progenitor	21
Unveiling the population of dual and lensed active galactic nuclei at sub-arcsec separations	21
Cold gas removal from the centre of a galaxy by a low-luminosity jet	21
Dust/ice mixing in cold regions and solid-state water in the diffuse interstellar medium	21
Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets	20
Addendum: Phosphine gas in the cloud deck of Venus	20
It’s time for some plane speaking	20
Infant-phase reddening by surface Fe-peak elements in a normal type Ia supernova	20
Millisecond pulsars from accretion-induced collapse as the origin of the Galactic Centre gamma-ray excess signal	20
Formation of intermediate-mass planets via magnetically controlled disk fragmentation	20
Predicted diversity in water content of terrestrial exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs	20
Torsional oscillations within a magnetic pore in the solar photosphere	20
Impact-driven disproportionation origin of nanophase iron particles in Chang’e-5 lunar soil sample	20
A Solar System formation analogue in the Ophiuchus star-forming complex	20
The large obliquity of Saturn explained by the fast migration of Titan	20
A relic from a past merger event in the Large Magellanic Cloud	20
Discovery of high-frequency retrograde vorticity waves in the Sun	19
The future of astronomy with small satellites	19
Early fluid activity on Ryugu inferred by isotopic analyses of carbonates and magnetite	19
Sonification and sound design for astronomy research, education and public engagement	19
The Sun’s dynamic extended corona observed in extreme ultraviolet	19
High-resolution detection of neutral oxygen and non-LTE effects in the atmosphere of KELT-9b	19
Magnetar spin-down glitch clearing the way for FRB-like bursts and a pulsed radio episode	19
A major ice component in Pluto’s haze	19
Discovery of post-mass-transfer helium-burning red giants using asteroseismology	19
Oxygen isotope evidence from Ryugu samples for early water delivery to Earth by CI chondrites	19
Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov	19
Composition of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres from meteorite outgassing experiments	19
Fluctuations in Jupiter’s equatorial stratospheric oscillation	18
The impact of climate change on astronomical observations	18
Discovery of X-ray polarization angle rotation in the jet from blazar Mrk 421	18
Transforming gas-rich low-mass disky galaxies into ultra-diffuse galaxies by ram pressure	18
Incorporation of 16O-rich anhydrous silicates in the protolith of highly hydrated asteroid Ryugu	17
Multi-scale feedback and feeding in the closest radio galaxy Centaurus A	17
The Milky Way’s plane of satellites is consistent with ΛCDM	17
A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest	17
Einstein rings modulated by wavelike dark matter from anomalies in gravitationally lensed images	17
Stochastic accretion of the Earth	17
Formation of rocky super-earths from a narrow ring of planetesimals	17
Towards a solution to the energy crisis	17
A deep learning approach to infer galaxy cluster masses from Planck Compton-y parameter maps	17
Evidence for a significant Kuiper belt dust contribution to the zodiacal cloud	17
Direct detection of ultralight dark matter bound to the Sun with space quantum sensors	17
Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth’s volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis	16
Distinguishing environmental effects on binary black hole gravitational waveforms	16
Five thousand exoplanets at the NASA Exoplanet Archive	16
Gamma-ray heartbeat powered by the microquasar SS 433	16
An assessment of the association between a fast radio burst and binary neutron star merger	16
The impending opacity challenge in exoplanet atmospheric characterization	15
A ubiquitous unifying degeneracy in two-body microlensing systems	15
Optical and ultraviolet pulsed emission from an accreting millisecond pulsar	15
Geological diversity and microbiological potential of lakes on Mars	15
Low-temperature nitrogen-bearing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formation routes validated by infrared spectroscopy	15
Unnecessary risks created by uncontrolled rocket reentries	15
The role of the cosmic web in the scatter of the galaxy stellar mass–gas metallicity relation	15