New research reveals how Saharan dust impacts solar energy generation in Europe. Dust from North Africa reduces photovoltaic (PV) power output by scattering sunlight, absorbing irradiance, and ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...

By sifting through that vast dataset, the team found 2,889 likely superflares on 2,527 sunlike stars. That works out to ...

Converting sunlight into electricity is the task of photovoltaic solar cells, but nearly half the light that reaches a flat ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...