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According to the US Navy, a nuclear submarine sustained damage and several injuries after hitting an "unknown object" in the South China Sea.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists got an unprecedented look at the exoplanet WASP-127b and made new discoveries about its atmosphere and weather.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is building a spacecraft designed to travel about 1.5 billion miles through our solar system relying on solar electric propulsion alone.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A team of students from Eindhoven in the Netherlands have created an awesome-looking mobile home that depends entirely on solar energy.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

A team of physicists demonstrated that a nuclear fusion device called a stellerator could manage heats up to twice the temperature of the Sun's core.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers has discovered the fastest-orbiting asteroid in the solar system. It gets even closer to the Sun than Mercury.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy is developing an uncrewed aircraft that can remain airborne for 90 days at a time thanks to massive solar panels on each of its wings.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time in history, renewables became the second-most prevalent electricity source in the US in 2020 after natural gas.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese government is digging a second field of an additional 110 silos for launching nuclear missiles, The New York Times reports.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, the Earth's interior is recycling only about a third of the carbon being sucked below volcanic areas.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Regions of the Amazon rainforest are now releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they can absorb.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Wants to Build Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Run Off Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

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Solar Power

By Chelsea Gohd

The US Navy is having some serious issues with procuring parts for its Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Two NASA astronauts conducted an hours-long spacewalk Wednesday morning to install new solar panels on the International Space Station.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

While installing more wind farms will probably be a crucial part of fighting climate change, putting them too close together could be self-defeating.
Wind

By Dan Robitzski

New details about Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck have emerged through the publication of several patent applications dating back to 2020. 
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

US soldiers stationed on bases with nuclear weapons accidentally released heaps of confidential info through virtual flashcards on study apps.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's interstellar Voyager 1 probe is "detecting the faint, persistent hum of interstellar gas" after crossing the heliopause in 2012.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

The World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Forged a Strange Object
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

The Biden administration just greenlit the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, and experts expect more to follow soon.
Wind

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Small gelatinous marine organisms called sea salps are wreaking havoc on two nuclear reactors in South Korea, forcing them offline, Bloomberg reports.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Low-tech Magazine's entire site is powered by solar panels on the author's balcony. It's part of a plan to make the internet less energy-intensive.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A rural school in Batesville, Arkansas generated enough solar energy to give every teacher up to $15,000 in raises, as CBS News reports.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg says that future military tanks should fuel themselves with attached solar panels.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite found a bizarre six-star solar system where each of the stars are paired up in gravitationally-bound binary systems.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at Stanford have found a way to stabilize perovskite, a natural mineral, setting the groundwork for more efficient solar panels.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Saudi Arabia has announced it's newest zero-carbon city project called "The Line" that's being built in a straight 100 mile line.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A close look at an asteroid fragment revealed crystals that likely formed on an ancient, long-gone dwarf planet-sized object.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have figured out a way to store energy from the Sun for several months at a time and release it on demand later.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Finland's Olkiluoto nuclear power plant had a close call Thursday, initiating an emergency shutdown after one of its reactors leaked.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

Iran Insists That Its Nuclear Scientist Was Killed by a “Satellite-Controlled Machine Gun”
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Aptera Motors says its upcoming electric car may never need to be plugged in thanks to solar panels that give it 45 miles of extra range every day.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Billions of years from now, scientists predict that the Sun's hold on planets will wane and other stars will steal them out of the solar system.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the entire solar system took a mere 200,000 years to form — considerably less time than how long humanity has been around.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese officials granted final approval to bring one of the nuclear reactors damaged by a 2011 tsunami and earthquake back online.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

A team in the United Kingdom has started work on what the BBC reports is the world's first facility to store energy as highly compressed air.
Wind

By Jon Christian

According to scientists, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus was yeeted out of the solar system when it was much younger.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

As the Voyager space probes travel farther outside our solar system, they're passing through increasingly dense regions of interstellar space.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

Trump's Department of Energy has been blocking research on the benefits of renewable energy sources from seeing the light of day.
Renewable Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

"Doesn't seem to be any life in this solar system," billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a recent tweet, responding to fan mail from a 13-year-old.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the country will power all homes with wind energy by 2030, but it might cost more than he's allocating.
Wind

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk argued that fusion energy will probably be more expensive than wind and solar. Experts are divided.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Research reveals that the west coast of India and Pakistan — where both countries operate nuclear power plants — are particularly vulnerable to tsunamis.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. just approved designs for the first small modular reactors, scaled down fission reactors that could help transition away from fossil fuels.
Nuclear Fusion

By Dan Robitzski

An energy startup called NDB says it's making progress on a battery technology powered by small pieces of nuclear waste. Oh, and they say it's safe.
Nuclear Fusion

By Jon Christian

Scientists want to improve our ability to forecast weather in space due to concerns that a solar storm could wipe out our entire electronic infrastructure.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the shape of our solar system's heliosphere could resemble a "deflated croissant," not a comet with a long tail.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

The Survival Condo is a converted luxury condominium complex comprised of 15 floors, reaching 200 feet below the surface.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are hoping that tiny graphite-coated balls of uranium could revolutionize and bring back nuclear energy production to the United States.
Nuclear Fusion

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, daily emissions decreased by 17 percent, or 17 million tons of carbon dioxide, worldwide to 2006 levels.
Renewable Energy

By Victor Tangermann

After studying a population of asteroids called the Centaurs for years, a team of scientists believes they originated outside the solar system.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

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.
Solar Power

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.
Nuclear Fusion

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.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann