The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

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The Parker Solar Probe is designed to explore the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere that's millions of degrees hotter than ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

New paper points to the Alpha Centauri triple star system as likely potential source of millions of interstellar asteroids and comets.

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Scientists discovered tiny jets on the Sun that power both fast and slow solar wind. These jets eject particles and shape ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...