Scientists have discovered that electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, driven by tiny atomic vibrations.

For over six decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been tirelessly scanning the cosmos for signs ...

SETI has spent decades listening for a sharp, well-defined radio signal that could indicate it was sent by distant intelligent life. Now researchers believe that space weather could distort and blur s ...

Mining giant Fortescue has begun construction of its 440MW Solomon Airport solar PV power plant in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

According to NASA, the solar cycle is a natural process of the Sun, in which the Sun goes through periods of increased and decreased activity approximately every 11 years.

Facing a deepening energy crisis exacerbated by U.S. sanctions and a halt in oil imports, Cuba is launching an ambitious, China-backed plan to transition 26 percent of its total energy supply to ...

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

Mars missions, Dr. Lulu Zhao shows how solar particles threaten our tech, and how AI is learning to forecast them.

The combination of the Spring equinox and the Sun's solar cycle starting towards its minimum means now is the last best time ...

The "equinox effect" doubles the chance of auroral activity in March and September, when the fall equinox takes place, scientists say.

Scientists have successfully tested a material design for light sails using photonic crystals that could achieve 20% the speed of light ...

In comparison with traditional electric power generating sources, solar power has a tremendous land footprint per unit of ...