A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

Whatever your experience with office culture is, the daily grind is part of the modern world and is often more draining than ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published in the journal Icarus, this extra world might have triggered a violent ...

Plug-in solar systems are an alternative to large, professionally installed rooftop solar. The US regulatory system for utilities wasn't built for plug-and-play solar setups, so it's taking time for ...

Plug-in panels are getting popular—how do we make sure they’re safe? Dozens of US states are considering legislation to allow people to install plug-in solar systems, often called balcony solar. These ...

Astronomers have spotted something surprising in the far outer Solar System—a faint, short-lived atmosphere clinging to a tiny icy world that shouldn’t be able to hold one at all. The object, called ...

Somewhere between 5% and 7% of U.S. households have rooftop solar panels. Many more Americans want them, but high costs, building locations and landlord restrictions are key obstacles. As someone who ...

Optimizing the performance of organic solar cells hinges on a comprehensive understanding of their nanostructures, yet traditional characterization methods often fall short, delivering incomplete ...

Solar panels are great during the day, but how can they help in the evening? Australia’s plan is to shift some of the evening demand to midday, when electricity demand is lowest and solar supply is ...

Astronomers have found a second planet that is in the process of forming in a dust cloud around a young star called WISPIT 2 — providing a glimpse of the birth of a solar system 1. Chloe Lawlor at the ...

Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...