The sun has produced stunning auroras on Earth in recent years as solar activity has peaked—but expect more in coming years ...

Solar storms pose a significant threat to power grids and nuclear facilities, with increasing risks due to the Sun's peak activity and our reliance on technology.

Controversial experiments are set to take place in Britain within the next five years to reflect sunlight away from Earth, ...

When our planet and the incoming sunlight align just right, stunning phenomena such as rainbows and halos can occur. More ...

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 ...

A new study led by a team of scientists from Switzerland and China suggests that changes in the amount of sunlight reaching Earth (surface solar radiation or SSR) over recent decades has been ...

“Permitting reform,” as it’s called, is needed to unleash green energies like solar and wind, which don’t emit greenhouse gases that cause climate change, supporters have argued.

Doing so will help experts gain a better understanding of the sun’s dynamic and complex behaviors, particularly the powerful particles, solar energy, and stellar radiation it ejects across the ...

Mercedes is working on solar ‘paintwork’ that could give EVs thousands of miles of range annually. It works out to be about 24 miles per day under ideal conditions, reducing the need to recharge.

The basic technology behind Ambient Photonics’s solar cells is so simple that it’s routinely assembled as a high school science experiment. In labs across the US, students sandwich ...