Nature Astronomy

Article	Citations
Revealing the magnetic field geometry in the Milky Way’s most efficient particle accelerator	227
Finding order in planetary architectures	198
Prospecting for primordial black holes	183
On our bookshelf	182
Early results on the early Universe	179
Rare-earths on a hot Jupiter	174
On both sides of the valley	159
The continued fight for equity	155
Finding pairs in a crowded place	145
Knowing when to stop	130
Take a break	125
On our bookshelf	114
On our bookshelf	107
Highlights from the MeerKAT Legacy Survey	106
Visually dim but bright in X-rays	106
An 85-s X-ray quasi-periodicity after a stellar tidal disruption by a candidate intermediate-mass black hole	106
Next stop the Moon	103
Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid Ryugu	100
An inherited complex organic molecule reservoir in a warm planet-hosting disk	92
Insight into multi-step geological evolution of C-type asteroids from Ryugu particles	90
The formation of merging black holes with masses beyond 30 M⊙ at solar metallicity	89
The contribution of winds from star clusters to the Galactic cosmic-ray population	86
A dormant companion of puzzling provenance	83
A link between repeating and non-repeating fast radio bursts through their energy distributions	82
Focus on astrobiology	80

Congratulations, it’s twins!	80
Cosmic recipe book updated	78
Observations of a very energetic ultraviolet and optical flare with a space telescope	78
The JWST disk revolution is not being televised	77
Herschel 200	76
Dust from the outer Solar System comes down to Earth	73
On our bookshelf	72
Pleiades lost	72
On our bookshelf (kids’ edition)	71
Substantial minority out of line	71
Structured signals suggest a source	68
Deep down, not too different from Earth	67
Confirming the energy sources of cosmic reionization	67
Merger remnants in a sea of stars	65
Searching for salvation in the stars	65
A rebounding instability	65
Efficient and effective assessment	63
Chaos reigns	63
Feedback gets a stellar review	63
Particle acceleration in AGN jets	63
Let the star fall	63
Let there be (natural) light	60
A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars	60
A decade of planets	60
The integrated metallicity profile of the Milky Way	59
Scenarios of future annual carbon footprints of astronomical research infrastructures	58
Subaru’s newest spectrometer with thousands of eyes	57
Sowing the seeds of early galaxy evolution	55
Weighing galaxy clusters by laptop	55
Shine as the light	54
A mid-infrared dream come true	53
The oxygen bait	53
The ‘Oumuamua controversy	52
High redshift and extreme luminosity	51
Betelgeuse in living colour	51
Characterizing the aerosols of a flat-spectrum planet	49
Detecting a planet orbiting a binary system using radial velocity data	49
A mature quasar at cosmic dawn revealed by JWST rest-frame infrared spectroscopy	48
On our bookshelf	47
Black hole Sun	47
The immense water plume of Enceladus and its torus have been captured by JWST	47
H2O MegaMaser emission in NGC 4258 indicative of a periodic disc instability	47
The persistent ring of M87* confirms predictions	47
A universal relation for pulsars, magnetars and potentially also fast radio bursts	46
GADGET	46
Two decades for twin rovers	46
The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST	45
Resolved ALMA observations of water in the inner astronomical units of the HL Tau disk	44
Evidence for auroral influence on Jupiter’s nitrogen and oxygen chemistry revealed by ALMA	44
Breaking waves on the surface of the heartbeat star MACHO 80.7443.1718	43

Venus as an anchor point for planetary habitability	42
Newly formed dust within the circumstellar environment of SN Ia-CSM 2018evt	42
Sputnik Planitia as an impactor remnant indicative of an ancient rocky mascon in an oceanless Pluto	42
Giant planets migrated shortly after the Solar System’s protoplanetary disk dispersed	42
Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations	41
A blazar in the epoch of reionization	41
Evidence from 162173 Ryugu for the influence of freeze–thaw on the hydration of asteroids	41
Echoes of a salty ocean on Ryugu	41
A super radio camera with a one-kilometre lens	40
Photochemical depletion of heavy CO isotopes in the Martian atmosphere	40
Introducing QUOTAS as a new research platform for the data-driven discovery of supermassive black holes	39
Definitive upper bound on the negligible contribution of quasars to cosmic reionization	39
In pursuit of life beyond Earth	38
Author Correction: Azimuthal C/O variations in a planet-forming disk	38
A new lens for quasar host masses	38
Cosmological tensions in the birthplace of the heliocentric model	37
Direct observation of turbulent magnetic reconnection in the solar wind	37
Gamma-ray emission from the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to millisecond pulsars	37
Unveiling the population of dual and lensed active galactic nuclei at sub-arcsec separations	37
An irradiated-Jupiter analogue hotter than the Sun	37
The observed impact of galaxy halo gas on fast radio bursts	37
Marsquakes coming into focus	36
Perfectly imaging imperfect science	36
Stewardship of space as shared environment and heritage	36
Going beyond being there to bring astronomy to the world	35
How to plan your astronomy research paper in ten steps	35
Wave energy in the solar atmosphere	35
Helium-enhanced planets along the upper edge of the radius valley	35
The turbulent aftermath of a neutron star collision	35
The black hole revolution needs you!	35
A freely precessing magnetar following an X-ray outburst	34
Planetary research and the search for life beyond Earth in Kyiv, Ukraine	34
Cosmic dust may have driven the geochemical origins of life on Earth	34
Diverse volcanism and crustal recycling on early Mars	34
Enhanced star formation through the high-temperature formation of H2 on carbonaceous dust grains	34
A tristatic phased array radar system in China	34
Existence is disputable	34
Author Correction: The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST	34
Insights into star formation and dispersal from the synchronization of stellar clocks	33
The 21-cm forest can be used to probe both dark matter and the first galaxies	33
The 21-cm forest as a simultaneous probe of dark matter and cosmic heating history	33
Magnetic dynamo active in the young Universe	33
We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong place	33
Communicating astrobiology in words not numbers and with facts not fiction	32
Astrophysics with continuous gravitational waves	32
Unmasking the shape of stellar explosions	31
Enrichment by extragalactic first stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud	31
Venus’s atmospheric nitrogen explained by ancient plate tectonics	31
A bullying problem reveals an astronomy and geophysics community in crisis	31
An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae	31
Reducing the ecological impact of computing through education and Python compilers	30
A massive compact quiescent galaxy at z = 2 with a complete Einstein ring in JWST imaging	30
GN-z11-flash from a man-made satellite not a gamma-ray burst at redshift 11	30
A likely flyby of binary protostar Z CMa caught in action	29
Anomalously porous boulders on (162173) Ryugu as primordial materials from its parent body	29
Rapid contraction of giant planets orbiting the 20-million-year-old star V1298 Tau	29
Neutrino heating re-starts the stalled engine	29
A Solar System formation analogue in the Ophiuchus star-forming complex	29
Author Correction: The origin of galaxy colour bimodality in the scatter of the stellar-to-halo mass relation	29
Addendum: Phosphine gas in the cloud deck of Venus	29
High-frequency heating of the solar wind triggered by low-frequency turbulence	28
Accessibility in astronomy for the visually impaired	28
Addendum: Meteoritic evidence for a Ceres-sized water-rich carbonaceous chondrite parent asteroid	28
Estimating the CO2 intensity of the space sector	28
Hunting for massive black holes in dwarf galaxies	28
Resolving the high-energy neutrino sky at 3σ	28
Astrobiology at altitude in Earth’s near space	28
Science at Low Frequencies VIII: how low can we go?	27
Oxygen as atmospheric thermometer	27
Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens	27
Hidden currents at the Sun’s surface	27
How to write and develop your astronomy research paper	27
Chemical and stellar properties of star-forming dwarf galaxies	27
Chemical and stellar properties of early-type dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way	27
Pinpointing the origins of radio flashes	26
Slow black hole accretion drives mass loss	26
A history of mild shocks experienced by the regolith particles on hydrated asteroid Ryugu	26
Isotopic fractionation of water and its photolytic products in the atmosphere of Mars	26
Are there extrasolar moons?	26
A new window on the smallest black holes	26

Planes of satellites no longer in tension with ΛCDM	25
A path to net-zero carbon emissions at the W. M. Keck Observatory	25
The epoch of galaxy quenching	25
A hidden population of high-redshift double quasars unveiled by astrometry	25
Publisher Correction: Stellar dynamics and dark matter in Local Group dwarf galaxies	25
A hot subdwarf–white dwarf super-Chandrasekhar candidate supernova Ia progenitor	25
A multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the western Pacific Ocean	24
Habitable potentials	24
Turbulent times for the Sun’s magnetic field	24
Maintaining spherical polarization in solar wind plasma	24
Constraints on the in situ and ex situ stellar masses in nearby galaxies obtained with artificial intelligence	24
A peculiarly short-duration gamma-ray burst from massive star core collapse	24
A roadmap for planetary caves science and exploration	24
Chandrayaan-3 reveals lunar magma ocean	23
Strong and weak pulsar radio emission due to thunderstorms and raindrops of particles in the magnetosphere	23
Ryugu in the spotlight	23
On our bookshelf	23
Low-temperature nitrogen-bearing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon formation routes validated by infrared spectroscopy	23
Decomposing data at distance	23
High-resolution observations and numerical simulations provide insight into solar atmospheric heating	23
Deep sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging of the Lockman Hole field at 144 MHz	23
Model test for very-metal-poor giant	22
Fostering activities in physics and astronomy in the Nepali community	22
Radio loud	22
How massive ellipticals become dark matter deficient	22
Women astronomers in Afghanistan need the world’s support	21
Weakened magnetic braking supported by asteroseismic rotation rates of Kepler dwarfs	21
OH as a probe of the warm-water cycle in planet-forming disks	21
The bubbling surface of a stellar crucible	21
Salts and organics on Ganymede’s surface observed by the JIRAM spectrometer onboard Juno	21
Frontiers in accretion physics at high X-ray spectral resolution	21
Packing a punch with paper packages	21
Chronologically dating the early assembly of the Milky Way	21
A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest	21
Machine learning reveals the merging history of nearby galaxies	21
The impact of satellite trails on Hubble Space Telescope observations	20
A calibration point for stellar evolution from massive star asteroseismology	20
Detection of the elusive dangling OH ice features at ~2.7 μm in Chamaeleon I with JWST NIRCam	20
Implications of H2/CO2 disequilibrium for life on Enceladus	20
Discovery of X-ray polarization angle rotation in the jet from blazar Mrk 421	20
The case for space environmentalism	20
The REACH radiometer for detecting the 21-cm hydrogen signal from redshift z ≈ 7.5–28	20
Author Correction: Updated lunar cratering chronology model with the radiometric age of Chang’e-5 samples	20
Proton acceleration in thermonuclear nova explosions revealed by gamma rays	20
Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies	20
Resolving the solar prominence/filament paradox using the magnetic Rayleigh–Taylor instability	20
Nightside clouds and disequilibrium chemistry on the hot Jupiter WASP-43b	19
Evidence of the fast acceleration of AGN-driven winds at kiloparsec scales	19
A long-duration gamma-ray burst of dynamical origin from the nucleus of an ancient galaxy	19
Identification of the weak-to-strong transition in Alfvénic turbulence from space plasma	19
Detection of ultra-fast radio bursts from FRB 20121102A	19
Annular modes of variability in the atmospheres of Mars and Titan	19
Impact-driven disproportionation origin of nanophase iron particles in Chang’e-5 lunar soil sample	19
A radius valley between migrated steam worlds and evaporated rocky cores	19
A fundamental mechanism of solar eruption initiation	19
The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole	19
Burst timescales and luminosities as links between young pulsars and fast radio bursts	19
Simultaneous space and phase resolved X-ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar and nebula	18
Evolutionary paths of active galactic nuclei and their host galaxies	18
Solar nanoflares erupt from a laboratory experiment	18
An increase in black hole activity in galaxies with kinematically misaligned gas	18
Exquisite detail from GN-z11’s emission lines	18
The hunt for PeVatrons as the origin of the most energetic photons observed in the Galaxy	18
Clues to galaxy assembly and chemical enrichment in the early Universe	18
Black hole takes multiple bites at the cherry	18
On our bookshelf	17
Pinning down protoclusters	17
Massive outsider influence	17
Magnetar gone (radio) silent	17
JWST takes stock of the freezer	17
The role of the cosmic web in the scatter of the galaxy stellar mass–gas metallicity relation	17
Seeing things differently	17
Gravitational wells in the large-scale structure of the Universe	17
Biogenic climate change could have driven the demise of life on early Mars	17
An early start for the first stars	17
The great black hole clear-out	17
The wild years of nuclear activity	16
A diverse planetary trio around a naked-eye star	16
Exotic feasts for white dwarfs	16
Surviving the death of a star	16
Once more, with flavour	16
A burst of activity nearby	16
Resolving the relevant details	15
Improved axion–photon coupling	15
A new entry for the elusive Earth Trojans	15
Double or nothing	15
On our bookshelf	15
Observational evidence for cylindrically oriented zonal flows on Jupiter	15
No place to go	15
JWST’s quest for indications of life on planets and exoplanets	15
Through the looking-glass	15
AGN feedback halts starbirth	15
China’s ambitions and challenges for asteroid–comet exploration	15
Organic hazes will impact JWST observations of water-rich exoplanets	15
Save the Earth… and space	15