An appeals panel determined that the Public Utilities Commission acted within its authority when it updated a tariff reducing a solar panel subsidy.

Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic vibrations acting like a “molecular catapult.” In experiments lasting just 18 ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

In 2022, Congress created the $1 billion Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund to support renewable infrastructure and the archipelago’s goal of meeting 100% of its electricity needs with renewable ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

Solar power is appealing, but the economics are tricky. Enter loanTERRA, a Seattle startup offering transparent financing and vetted installers.

A team of scientists from around the world has created the first system that can predict when and where extremely powerful solar storms, called superflares, are most likely to happen. These storms can ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in ...