NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Monroeville Public Library is holding a three-part children’s series on space, where participants learn fun facts about the ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

What's more, these results have resonances in nuclear fusion, as the Sun remains the only stable nuclear fusion reactor in our solar system. Improving our understanding of the Sun's internal ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ...

I came across an interactive NASA tool called Solar System Simulator. On it, you can view objects in our solar system from ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake ... The project got buy-in from the government with $1.6 billion in Department of Energy loan guarantees, and from utilities ...

But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might still be nine if some astronomers are correct about an as-yet ...

There's one catch for American solar shoppers: The Maxeon 7 won't be available in the US market until later this year, which means that it won't be part of any rooftop solar system you might be ...

The Energy Information Agency has now released data on the performance of the US's electric grid over the first 11 months of 2024 and will be adding the final month soon (and a month is very ...