With the race for clean energy intensifying, scientists are revisiting an old idea: harvesting the Sun’s power from space ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely changed the way humanity views the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

What if we could get clean electricity more cheaply and protect the environment at the same time? A team of researchers in ...

Three US manufacturers actively working to commercialize their respective perovskite-silicon tandem technologies make the case for tandem modules. CubicPV, Caelux and Swift Solar argue a commercial ...

Scientists in China have investigated the hydrodynamic performance of a novel modular floating photovoltaic system. They did so using a novel hybrid approach, which integrates viscous-flow effects ...

In this video we will talk about the new solar farm A shiny round island floats on a lake in the Netherlands, covered in dozens of shimmering solar panels. This is the protevs system, one of many new ...

Fourth Power has raised $20 million to build a demonstration version of its thermal batteries, which ultimately could store ...