For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

As humanity continues to expand its presence in space, the questions we’re asking are also getting grander in scale. Here’s an example: What if we could “stop” space weather? An ambitious proposal, ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

Industry Insight from Reuters Events, a part of Thomson Reuters. Deployment of hybrid solar and battery power plants for hyperscalers is surging as developers capitalize on fast construction timelines ...

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 ...

China’s Talatan Solar Park, with 16.9 GW of capacity, demonstrates how large-scale solar development can benefit from high-altitude desert environments. California is planning a 21 GW solar project ...

Astronomers have spotted something surprising in the far outer Solar System—a faint, short-lived atmosphere clinging to a tiny icy world that shouldn’t be able to hold one at all. The object, called ...

In brief: Solar-powered cars are still not practical at full scale. Panels are cheaper and more efficient than they used to be, but they do not generate enough energy to move a standard vehicle over ...

Astronomers have found a second planet that is in the process of forming in a dust cloud around a young star called WISPIT 2 — providing a glimpse of the birth of a solar system 1. Chloe Lawlor at the ...

Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...

The US needs a lot more electricity fast, and one company thinks robots can help build it quicker. Berkeley, California-based Terabase Energy says its next-gen Terafab automated solar construction ...