Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

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Scientists are closely monitoring the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it moves across our solar system. The object could be twice as big as Manhattan, says Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, and will come ...

A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is suspected of causing 15 deaths among 28 people with symptoms, the health ministry in the central African country said Thursday. It’s the ...

According to Doyon, LHS 1140 b doesn't resemble Earth so much as it resembles our solar system's icy moons Europa and Enceladus, both of which are suspected to harbor subsurface oceans that could ...

Astronomers continue to track the third-ever discovered interstellar object, comet 3I/ATLAS, using powerful telescopes and spacecraft as it moves through our cosmic neighborhood. Just last week, the ...

Researchers note that Bennu has preserved clues about the solar system's very earliest days. Stardust Older Than the Sun According to a trio of recently published papers, scientists analysed Bennu's ...

Coal and utility-scale solar power each gained market share in the first half of this year, newly released data on U.S. electricity generation show. Natural gas, while still the market leader, lost ...

India's GST Council has reduced the GST rate on solar cells – whether or not assembled into modules – from 12% to 5%, effective Sept. 22. The tax cut is expected to make solar cells and modules more ...

"Bennu is a time capsule of the material that was throughout the solar system." Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of ...