The continent’s abundant sunshine offers a vast reservoir of clean energy. While infrastructure lags behind, home solar ...

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

Brian Cox on the interstellar comet whizzing through our Solar System. Watch the full episode on BBC iPlayer. 3 days ago ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Supporters already have won regulatory changes in Utah for so-called balcony solar systems, which provide a small boost of electrical power. Big solar energy projects are getting harder to build.

The industry association Swissolar expects a moderate decline in new photovoltaic capacity this year, to 1.6 GW, compared with 1.8 gigawatts added in 2024. From 2026 onward, the market is expected to ...

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A solar eclipse is what occurs when the moon comes in between the sun and the Earth, and a partial eclipse is what happens when that alignment is imperfect. The moon will only partly cover the sun, ...

September's new moon will be a special event this weekend, as it rises amid a partial solar eclipse — visible to only 0.2% of the world's population — and leads us all into the autumnal equinox. When ...

Rupert Mayer, co-founder and technical director for Bright Saver, discusses the possibility of bringing the popular European program to the U.S. on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Photo by Austyn ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.