Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

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Auroras occur when solar flares interact with the magnetic field of a planet. They have been detected on Jupiter, Saturn, and ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially ... crazy things because they have a lot of energy, like planets when they are young. When we get older ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique ...

If Earth had Auroras in similar areas to Neptune, they wouldn't be in the poles - but near Japan and Argentina.