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A team of astronomers at the UPenn have discovered 139 minor planets — too small for a planet, but not a comet either — orbiting the Sun past Neptune.

Scientists Discover 139 New “Minor Planets” in Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A new site claims to offer a guide to building an entire nuclear power plant, from the reactor vessels to the Homer Simpson-esque control panels.

Here’s How to Build Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

By Jon Christian

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.

Researcher: Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found a way to turn biowaste, specifically the inedible cores of jackfruit and durian, into high-density ultracapacitors for storing energy.

Scientists Are Storing Energy Using Uneaten Fruit

By Dan Robitzski

A draft proposal, if enacted, would force vendors selling phones, tablets, or earbuds in the European Union to use replaceable batteries.

The EU Might Make Personal Electronics Use Replaceable Batteries

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals a bizarre link: on days that solar storms mess with the magnetic field, more gray whales beach themselves.

Solar Storms May Cause Whales to Crash Into Beaches

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian fusion startup called HB11 claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear fusion technology. A bold statement.

Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide “Unlimited” Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have created tiny solar powered wings that can flap faster than butterfly wings and only need sunlight as a power source.

These Tiny, Solar-Powered Wings Flap Faster Than a Butterfly’s

By Victor Tangermann

Delta just threw down a carbon-neutral pledge at a first-class price: $1 billion over ten years. Is it a realistic ambition, or a pie-in-the-sky dream?

Renewable Energy

Uh, Delta Just Threw Down a $1 Billion Carbon-Neutral Pledge

By Foster Kamer

Swiss startup Energy Vault wants to overcome the limitations of lithium-ion batteries by storing wind and solar energy by stacking massive brick towers.

Here’s How to Store Wind and Solar Energy Using Just Gravity

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has nearly dug deep enough inside Earth to tap into a reservoir of supercritical fluid, which could serve as a limitless power supply.

This Team Wants to Capture Unlimited Energy From Inside the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist has designed a stellar engine that could move Earth's entire solar system from one part of the Milky Way to another.

This “Stellar Engine” Would Move an Entire Solar System

By Kristin Houser

Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.

Here’s Exactly How Screwed You’d Be in a Nuclear Apocalypse

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers built a kind of generator that gives off a powerful burst of energy whenever it's hit by falling rain.

Scientists Invent Device to Generate Electricity From Rain

By Dan Robitzski

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shared a dire warning that the planet is descending into conflcit and instability, but a better future is possible.

UN Secretary-General: “A Wind of Madness Is Sweeping the Globe”

By Dan Robitzski

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.

The US Navy Wants to Arm Nuclear Submarines With Laser Cannons

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers identified a major flaw in the U.S. government's plan to store nuclear waste: groundwater can eat away at storage containers and cause leaks.

Nuclear Waste Storage Containers Break Down When Exposed to Water

By Dan Robitzski

Research teams have discovered dust grains older than our solar system in two meteorites that landed on separate parts of the Earth in 1969.

Materials Older Than the Solar System Found in Two Meteorites

By Kristin Houser

The wildfires raging in Australia could release a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere by the end of the fire season, says Stanford scientist.

Renewable Energy

Australian Wildfires Could Release a Billion Tons of Carbon

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers wants to make use of nuclear waste by converting it into extremely long-lasting diamond batteries that could power medical devices.

New Technique Turns Nuclear Waste Into “Diamond Batteries”

By Dan Robitzski

Rolls-Royce is eyeing two building sites for its first mini nuclear power stations called "small modular reactors" (SMR) in Wales and northern England.

Rolls-Royce Is Building Tiny Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

The local government overseeing Fukushima has vowed to supply the region with 100% renewable energy by 2040, The Guardian reports.

Renewable Energy

Fukushima Plans to Power Region With 100% Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists detailed how 143 countries could transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 or possibly even sooner.

Scientists: Total Transition to Clean Energy Possible by 2050

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a single speech that he both “doesn’t understand wind” and has “studied it better than anybody.”

Donald Trump Doesn’t Seem to Know Anything About Wind Power

By Kristin Houser

Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, is now operational and generating power for the town of Pevek.

Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant Began Generating Electricity

By Dan Robitzski

An Army research center patented bizarre boots that generates electricity every time a soldier takes a step, giving them a new way to power their gear.

The Army Wants to Generate Electricity Inside Soldiers’ Boots

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created an AI that is able to come up with a recipe for "perovskite" that could one day be used to create spray-on solar cells.

Scientists Are Working on Spray-On Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has resurfaced his idea to turn 10,000 square miles in the U.S. desert into a solar farm that can power the entire nation.

Elon Musk Is Talking About Powering All of America with Solar

By Victor Tangermann

Musk's mind is already racing far ahead, imagining a bright, renewable energy-fuelled future featuring a cybertruck cladded in solar panels.

Elon Musk Wants to Add “Fold Out Solar Wings” to Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that a fiery layer of super-hot plasma marks the transition between our solar system and interstellar space.

Our Solar System Is Blanketed in a Giant Wall of Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Heliogen's new solar oven can focus sunlight and reach temperatures high enough to manufacture steel and cement without any fossil fuels.

Bill Gates-Funded Startup Unveils “Holy Grail” of Solar Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists used data collected by the European Space Agency's Cluster mission to map out Earth's "eerie song" it sings during a solar storm.

Here’s What Happens When a Solar Storm Slams Into the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Air Force is trying to find out if we could collect solar power in space and beam it down to Earth with the help of Northrop Grumman..

The Air Force Is Trying to Beam Solar Power Down to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The Keystone Pipeline just had a spill of over 380,000 gallons of crude oil into North Dakota wetlands, the latest in a line of catastrophic oil spills.

The US Said This Pipeline Would Have “No Impact.” Now It’s Leaking Crude Oil.

By Dan Robitzski

After denying reports of a system malware infection Tuesday, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) admitted that its plants had been hacked.

Someone Hacked India’s Nuclear Power Plants

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, scientists achieved "first light" with the Mayall Telescope's Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. It could teach us about dark energy.

Scientists Boot Up New Device to Map the Universe’s Dark Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The asteroid Hygiea is actually our solar system's smallest dwarf planet, astronomers determine using Very Large Telescope data.

Scientists Detect the Smallest Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System

By Kristin Houser

Early observations of the interstellar object 2I/Borisov suggest that the comet's home solar system might not be that different from our own.

Interstellar Object’s Home Solar System May Resemble Our Own

By Kristin Houser

Big tech companies have by and large avoided the blackouts in California, as they're powered by more robust transmission lines.

The CA Blackouts Are Oh-so-Coincidentally Not Affecting Big Tech

By Dan Robitzski

Navy "UFO "scientist Salvatore Cezar Pais has filed another bizarre patent. This time, it's for a compact nuclear fusion reactor.

Navy Scientist Known For “UFO-Like Tech” Patents Fusion Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new essay, several companies trying to develop nuclear fusion reactors believe they're getting pretty close.

What You Need To Know About Fusion Energy

By Cameron McCloskey

Starting Wednesday, the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric will turn off customers' power to prevent its aging infrastructure from causing wildfires.

California Is Cutting Power For Nearly a Million Homes

By Dan Robitzski

New calculations of the universe's outward expansion only make sense if it turns out that some black holes are actually giant blobs of dark energy.

Some Black Holes May Actually Be Blobs of Dark Energy

By Dan Robitzski

According to a decade-long study by a team of scientists, human activity emissions total up to 100 times more than all volcanoes combined.

Renewable Energy

Humans Produce 100x More CO2 Than All Volcanoes Combined

By Victor Tangermann

While performing a close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured several stunning images of a solar eclipse on the gas giant.

Juno Captures Stunning Images of a Solar Eclipse on Jupiter

By Kristin Houser

Japanese auto giant Toyota has partnered with a local energy company to test a Prius hybrid that's almost entirely covered in solar panels.

Toyota Wants to Slather Solar Panels All Over Its Prius Hybrid

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to the Gemini Observatory, we get a closer look at the object called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), a comet believed to be from beyond our solar system.

Here’s a Pic of That Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers believe they may have detected a second interstellar object, but unlike 'Oumuamua, this one is on its way into our solar system.

An Interstellar Object May Have Just Entered Our Solar System

By Kristin Houser

An electrical engineer at the University of California in LA, has come up with a device that can harness electricity from a dark night sky to power an LED.

This Solar Panel-Like Device Can Generate Electricity in the Dark

By Victor Tangermann

A Canadian company is building a geothermal energy project so benign, its CEO claims you could "literally put it in someone's backyard."

This Geothermal Energy System Could Be Built in a Backyard

By Kristin Houser

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry shared a chainmeme to his Instagram and Twitter feeds, apparently unaware that it was a hoax.

Instagram Hoax Fools Department of Energy Head Rick Perry

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that "thousands of solar reflector satellites" could be used to warm up the surface of Mars.

Elon Musk: “Thousands of Solar Reflector Satellites” Could Warm Up Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Retail giant Walmart is suing Tesla, claiming that the company's solar panels ignited seven of its stores' roofs, CNBC reports.

Walmart Sues Tesla, Claims Solar Panels Are Setting Fire to Stores

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla Solar is now giving homeowners in six states the option of renting its solar panels for as little as $50 per month, with a $1,500 uninstall fee.

You Can Now Rent Tesla Solar Panels for Crazy Cheap

By Kristin Houser

A new experiment looking for dark energy came back with nothing, helping scientists narrow down future searches for the mysterious force.

Experiment to Detect Dark Energy Turns Up Nothing

By Dan Robitzski

Report: The World’s First Solar Road is an Absolute Disaster

Report: The World’s First Solar Road is an Absolute Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Nye: Green Energy Will Make You “Filthy $@!% Rich”

Bill Nye: Green Energy Will Make You “Filthy $@!% Rich”

By Victor Tangermann

In three years, the Fukushima nuclear power plant will run out of space to store contaminated water, pushing officials to quicjly assemble a new plan.

In Three Years, Fukushima Could Overflow With Radioactive Water

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's massive floating nuclear power plant is destined to make its way across the Arctic Ocean to supply electricity to a remote eastern region.

Russia Is Floating a Nuclear Power Plant Across the Arctic

By Victor Tangermann

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 has officially raised its orbit by just shy of two miles using its solar sail.

“Solar Sail” Spacecraft Climbs Two Miles of Orbit Using Sun Power

By Victor Tangermann

With new contracts awarded to weapons developers, the Army is pushing for new laser weapons capable of destroying drones and vehicles.

US Army Doubles Down on Directed Energy Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

MOZI 2, a solar-powered drone with a wingspan of 15 meters, just successfully completed its maiden flight, according to Chinese media reports.

This Strange Solar-Powered Drone Could Save You in a Disaster

By Kristin Houser

The massive radiation leak that plumed over Eastern Europe in 2017 was just definitively traced back to a Russian nuclear facility.

Did Russia Cover Up a Radiation Leak 100x Worse Than Fukushima?

By Dan Robitzski

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 satellite has successfully unfurled its massive boxing ring-sized solar sail on Tuesday.

LightSail 2 Spacecraft Officially Unfurls Massive Solar Sail

By Victor Tangermann