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Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha Centauri system.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have developed a new "artificial leaf" that removes CO2 from the air and turns it into sustainable fuel.
Renewable Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an ill-conceived round of federal layoffs, the government is scrambling to hire back hundreds of nuclear weapons experts.
Nuclear Fusion

By Joe Wilkins

As Donald Trump has demanded the mass firing of hundreds of workers at an agency that manages our nuclear stockpile.
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports, it will devastate the nuclear energy market.
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

A company is trying to turn the idea of an at least partially solar-powered Cybertruck into a reality with a solar panel wrap.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

As more and more rich people rush to buy and build bomb shelters, experts suggest they're a bandaid on top of a nuclear blast. 
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Say Something May Have Visited the Solar System and Rearranged the Planets
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

The interstellar tunnel, a feature of an enormous structure called the Local Bubble, could lead to nearby stars.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Google is going all-in on nuclear to power its AI efforts, which have resulted in the tech giant missing important climate targets.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday — and we could be in for another powerful geomagnetic storm later this week.
Solar Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former president Donald Trump made a mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be more worried about "nuclear warming."
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

China experienced a major military setback earlier this year when its secret nuclear submarine sank right after being launched. 
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nuclear researchers and energy startups are now melting down weapons-grade uranium from unexploded warheads to power next-generation SMRs.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

NASA’s Experimental Solar Sail Is Tumbling in Orbit
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

After shutting it down in 2022, Michigan is making an abrupt u-turn and is now planning to reopen an old 1970s nuclear power.
Nuclear Fusion

By Sharon Adarlo

The multi-layered coating is not only thinner than the silicon cells typically used in solar panels, but rivals their efficiency, too.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

A power geomagnetic storm that hit Earth on Monday created beautiful auroras that lit up the night sky during the Perseids meteor shower.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Mayonnaise may, according to a new study, help scientists figure out how to realistically harness the power of nuclear fusion.
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this month, a 360-foot blade of a wind turbine off the shore of Nantucket shattered. An oil spill is still far worse.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

A massive wind turbine blade shattered, leading to "large floating debris and fiberglass shards" threatening local beachgoers.
Wind

By Victor Tangermann

While heat waves batter Europe, a million people in Southern Russia went without power due to a nuclear false alarm.
Nuclear Fusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has built the OceanX, "the world's largest single-capacity floating wind turbine platform." It can withstand hurricanes and typhoons.
Wind

By Sharon Adarlo

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo

The Blue Visby Solution proposes that cargo ships stop arriving way ahead of schedule and reduce their top speeds at sea to save fuel.
Renewable Energy

By Frank Landymore

Tractors and other farm equipment broke down in the middle of planting season due to an extreme solar storm over the weekend.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A new carbon capture facility that claims to be the biggest in the world, began sucking the carbon from the air in Iceland.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A massive solar storm is blasting the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles, resulting in auroras that will be visible across the US.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA spacecraft with sails being propelled solely by the rays of the Sun just made contact with operators back on Earth.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo

It's the "duck curve" problem. Solar power is providing huge amounts of energy during the day, creating a headache for grid operators.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet in our Solar System — and new research suggests that it's out there. 
Solar Power

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA footage from the International Space Station shows a massive, looming cloud of darkness engulfing huge swathes of the United States.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A massive jet stream formed over the mid-Atlantic region this past weekend, pushing eastbound planes faster than the speed of sound. 
Wind

By Noor Al-Sibai

A plan to store nuclear waste in America's busiest oil field is a fascinating collision between fossil fuels and nuclear.
Nuclear Fusion

By Jon Christian

Last night's event was the first Super Bowl to be entirely powered by renewable energy, an impressive feat for a 65,000-person stadium.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford researchers tasked OpenAI's GPT-4 AI to make high-stakes, society-level decisions. It recommended the use of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

A particularly enterprising Tesla owner has built his very own solar panel array that can be mounted on the roof of his Model Y.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists encountered the biggest solar flare recorded since 2017, which was powerful enough to knock out radio communication on Earth.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The first-of-its-kind geothermal plant will power Google's nearby data centers and could kick start a new phase of geothermal energy.
Geothermal

By Frank Landymore

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States. 
Renewable Energy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers claim that in 2020, an astonishing 53 percent of all free-standing homes in Europe could have run entirely on solar.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Solar power is set to become the dominant energy source in the world by 2050, surpassing even fossil fuels if current trends continue.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

A NASA spacecraft has caught a glimpse of a green comet being buffeted by a coronal mass ejection, a powerful solar storm.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a plasma flare, specifically called a coronal mass ejection, bursting from the Sun and survived.
Solar Power

By Sharon Adarlo

Planetary scientists suggest an Earth-like planet, no bigger than three times the Earth's mass, could lurk beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Climate activist Ia Anstoot is gunning to challenge Greenpeace's court case against the EU classifying nuclear power as a green investment.
Nuclear Fusion

By Frank Landymore

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.
Nuclear Fusion

By Frank Landymore

For the second month running, the UN's security watchdog found anti-personnel mines inside Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists suggest another planet could be lurking in the Oort cloud, a collection of icy objects stretching beyond the Kuiper Belt.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've successfully transmitted solar energy gathered in orbit down to the Earth's surface.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

German startup Proxima Fusion recently grabbed millions to build a reactor that looks like a twisty French cruller doughnut.
Nuclear Fusion

By Sharon Adarlo

Months after notifying government officials that its Minnesota-based nuclear plant had sprung a radioactive water leak, Xcel Energy has come publicly clean.
Nuclear Fusion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.
Solar Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If our solar system wasn't weird, we'd expect to find another "super-Earth" sized planet near Jupiter. Turns out though, that would probably kill us.
Solar Power

By Frank Landymore

Planetary scientists have made a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which may be home to a "stealth" ocean.
Solar Power

By Noor Al-Sibai