A new study from Stanford is providing strong evidence about the efficiency of a popular source of clean energy.If it's in your home and runs on electricity, you'll probably find it in the Stanford ...

This is good news for both solar and non-solar households. Government-backed study breaks down controversial anti-solar argument: '[They] are ultimately policy decisions' first appeared on The Cool ...

The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the ...

Billions of years ago, while the solar system was still young, a massive object may have drifted into it. It's not a spaceship, but it is an alien visitor in its own right—a colossal interstellar body ...

A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and ...

To tell a Mars rover to turn left or an orbiter to change focus, mission scientists have to beam powerful transmissions ...

NASA's IMAP mission will give Earthlings a sort of early warning system when solar weather may affect satellites and global ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

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

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...