The Physical Review is expanding its coverage of astronomy and astrophysics.

Several free-to-publish and Open Access journals of our portfolio have come together to form the Astronomy and Astrophysics Topical Group. It covers a broad range of topics, from nuclear astrophysics to exoplanets and planetary atmospheres, through our broad-scope premier journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review X, and our topical journals Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Physical Review E, Physical Review Fluids, Physical Review Research, PRX Life, as well as Reviews of Modern Physics.

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A. G. Abac et al. (LIGO Scientific, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaborations) Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111403 (2025)

In time for the 10-year anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves by LIGO, Physical Review Letters publishes a new significant observation: Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has shown Hawking’s area law to hold with high credibility.

Living systems are defined by their active acquisition and use of information. This Roadmap surveys current research on life's information processes and their importance for the search for life

beyond Earth.

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Large-scale distribution of galaxies up to six billion parsecs from Earth measured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Each colored dot represents a galaxy. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

R. L. Lysak, A. H. Sulaima, S. S. Elliott, W. S. Kurth, and S. J. Bolton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 035201 – Published 16 July, 2025

Unusual Plasma Waves Above Jupiter’s North Pole. A spacecraft observes a new oscillation mode in the low-density plasma.

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Simon Portegies Zwart, Mitchel Stoop, Lex Kaper, Alex de Koter, Steven Rieder, Tomer Shenar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 021201 – Published 11 July, 2025

A detailed analysis of a stellar cluster has led to a possible explanation for several fast-moving runaway stars around the cluster.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images—a small preview of a decadal survey that will observe an unprecedented number of stars and galaxies, helping researchers tackle the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology.

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The Physical Review is expanding its coverage of astrophysics and astronomy and wants to ensure that papers from these fields have a welcome home in our journals. This collection highlights several significant papers to illustrate the type of research we seek to publish.

Carlos Hervías-Caimapo, Ari J. Cukierman, Patricia Diego-Palazuelos, Kevin M. Huffenberger, and Susan E. Clark

Phys. Rev. D 111, 083532 (2025) - Published 15 April, 2025

The detection of rotation of linearly polarized cosmic microwave background photons, which is called cosmic birefringence, may suggest new parity-violating physics. However, scattering by dust can also mimic this same effect. In this paper, the authors extend a pre-existing dust filament model to compute this effect to make a forecast for future CMB experiments and assess the effect of this dust on present isotropic measurements of cosmic birefringence.

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Orion Ning and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 171003 (2025) - Published 1 May, 2025

Two independent teams have searched for axions using x-ray observations of entire galaxies, setting some of the strictest constraints to date on the properties of these dark matter candidates.

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