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The Sun will eventually become a red giant, a transformation expected to lead to the destruction of Mercury and Venus.

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Do cosmic radiation doses near the moon differ significantly from those received by astronauts in low Earth orbit?

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Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on IceCube and high-energy neutrinos. Here is how Antarctic ice helped scientists hunt these elusive ‘ghost particles’.