A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...

Astronomers are gathering in Phoenix this week for the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247), where ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

We should be working to help stabilize electricity bills through programs such as net metering, which allows households to hedge against rate hikes, Solar United Neighbors’ Brandon Praileau ...

ABSTRACT: The Sun makes its everyday job, heating us and maintaining the merry-go-round of the planets, simultaneously using the main energies that govern the Universe: Gravity, the strong nuclear and ...

"Is Solar pointless in Columbus? It is so cloudy here," they wrote in their Reddit post. "Anyone ever done the math?" The question sparked dozens of responses from Ohioans eager to dispel one of the ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by ...

The first solar panels practically yeeted coal off the grid. But progress doesn’t simply solve our fossil-fueled problems; it reshapes them. As solar dominates and clean energy matures, success brings ...

ABSTRACT: This research project concerns the development of an intelligent solar tracker designed to optimize the yield of photovoltaic systems in Burundi, one of the countries in the equatorial ...

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 ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...