For now, a single satellite has been cleared for a test demonstration, but the company making it hopes to eventually launch ...

Reflect Orbital has been given the green light to launch its first space mirror that aims to redirect sunlight down to Earth ...

The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an ...

After federal tax credits for renewable projects expired, joining a solar co-op is one way to save on residential solar.

With summer just around the corner, many of us are sprucing up our gardens to create the ultimate spot for friends to gather and soak up the warmer evenings. Although the days are longer, with sunsets ...

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Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published in the journal Icarus, this extra world might have triggered a violent ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...

Mohammed Ali Naqvi's Sundance-premiering doc chronicles a dramatic 2023 gondola accident in rural Pakistan. By Richard Lawson In 2023, a gondola carrying eight people — six of them teenagers on their ...