Astronomers studying the Kuiper Belt have detected a strange distortion that could point to an unknown planet lurking far beyond Neptune.

The planets orbit in a flat plane but our solar system is more than just a disc. This video reveals the 3D bubble we travel through, exploring the Oort Cloud, a spherical shell of icy bodies, and the ...

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the ...

Installing solar in a van can seem intimidating — especially if you’ve never worked with electricity before. In this build, ...

Achieving both a low operating temperature for photovoltaic (PV) and a high heat collection temperature for photothermal (PT) ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice and rock. For years, scientists wondered how these delicate two-lobed shapes ...

UL Solutions recently launched a dedicated testing and certification program for plug-in solar systems. The program aims to create a “clear safety framework” to support the installation of plug-in ...

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Nothing manmade has reached further from Earth than the Voyager series of spacecraft. Hurtling away from the sun at 38,000 miles an hour, the duo have now traveled over 12 billion miles, with Voyager ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...