Vast Renewables has successfully completed large-scale testing of a concentrated solar thermal power receiver tower destined ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...

The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood ...

Jupiter is an enormous gas giant, more massive than all the other planets in the solar system combined... and yet small compared to our Sun and other Stellar Objects. Could Jupiter be turned into a ...

Singapore-based Canopy Power has teamed with Norwegian floating PV specialist Ocean Sun aiming to accelerate the deployment ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

The Invisible Ropes of the Sky Jet streams are essentially fast-flowing air currents high above us, acting much like highways ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...