Conventional solar panels cannot completely utilise sunlight throughout the day since they are stuck in one location. For ...

To receive the same amount of starlight as Mars receives from our sun, a planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf would have to be positioned much closer to its star than Mercury is to the sun. Disclaimer: ...

Everyone’s familiar with the standard solar system diagram, which helps pull them in. The fact that it's not immediately clear what you're looking at, that not everything is spelled out, pushes you to ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

A sunspot, potentially generating multiple solar flares, may lead to auroras that could be visible as far south as Alabama.

Two-dimensional representations of the Solar System misleadingly suggest orbital intersection between Neptune and Pluto. Pluto's elliptical orbit, inclined 17º to the ecliptic plane, and Neptune's ...

Researchers using a powerful telescope in Hawaii spotted the visiting object, called A/2017 U1, last week. “We have been waiting for this day for decades,” said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Almost all strategies for solar energy harvest and solar energy storage that exist today are developed as independent technologies. For instance, a solar cell generates ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...