  Electron beams provide important probes and constraints for nuclear
astrophysics. This is especially exciting at energies within the regime of
chiral effective field theory (EFT), which provides a systematic expansion for
nuclear forces and electroweak operators based on quantum chromodynamics. This
talk discusses some recent highlights and future directions based on chiral
EFT, including nuclear structure and reactions for astrophysics, the neutron
skin and constraints for the properties of neutron-rich matter in neutron stars
and core-collapse supernovae, and the dark matter response of nuclei.
