A new study maps the infall of protons and electrons from the solar wind to geographical location on the surface of Mercury, giving scientists new insight into how interactions with the Sun alters the ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The evidence is a stream of gas called the ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2 shows two particularly high-quality spectra and compares them with our model predictions. Both spectra show our predicted ...

What can an exoplanet falling into its own star tell astronomers about the formation and evolution of planetary systems? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to ...