Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

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 ...

We would like to get solar panels installed at our home but we are not sure whether getting a battery system as well is a good idea. We are a family of four living in a four-bed home, with a south ...

Thirty is the new 20. Well, at least maybe in the solar panel world. That's because a study of six, three-decade-old arrays in Switzerland found them to still be working well, retaining more than 80% ...

Marnie Shaw has received funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Energy Consumers Australia. Laura Jones receives funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Australia has ...

NASA is tracking an object that is entering the solar system at approximately 245,000 km/h. This interstellar visitor is 3I/ATLAS, also known as “Comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and initially dubbed A11pl3Z.

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. A team of astronomers led by Julio Fernández ...

Portal’s heat exchanger thruster, known as Flare, fires up during a test in a vacuum chamber. (Portal Space Systems Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its ...

Skywatchers, rejoice. This month, not one but two comets are set to soar into our night skies for your viewing pleasure. The two comets, C/2025 R2 (SWAN) and C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), were both discovered ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Yeimy J. Rivera receives funding from NASA's Parker Solar Probe project through the SAO/SWEAP subcontract 975569. Tatiana Niembro receives funding from NASA's Parker Solar Probe project through the ...

This month, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about what losing the federal home solar tax credit means for Electrek readers and how it impacts their solar power plans. After receiving nearly two ...