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If you live in the Northern part of the United States and catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis tonight, you'll have a "cannibal" solar explosion to thank.

Huge “Cannibal” Solar Explosion Will Make Northern Lights Visible in Areas That Normally Never See Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says wind and solar jobs will be among the fastest-growing occupations in the next ten years.

Government Says Wind and Solar Among Fastest-Growing Occupations in Next Ten Years

By Lonnie Lee Hood

As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, many experts are beginning to sound the alarm on the risk fighting poses on the country’s nuclear power plants.

Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plants at “Unprecedented” Risk Due to Russian Invasion

By Tony Ho Tran

Professors studied fir trees growing near Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster site. The trees' whorls show growth patterns affected by radiation.

Nuclear Disaster in Japan Did Something Strange to Trees

By Lonnie Lee Hood

EV Solar Kits is aiming to make electric vehicles run on renewable energy instead of electricity created by fossil fuel power plants by using solar panels.

Startup Says Its Solar Upgrade for Teslas Adds 60 Miles in Range per Day

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One Michigan nuclear power plant detected a "possible fire," but turned its sirens off last year. It follows a history of concerning nuclear events.

Fire Reported at Crumbling Michigan Nuclear Power Plant

By Lonnie Lee Hood

What could possibly be more romantic than getting engaged to be wed at the site of a nuclear disaster?

Couple Gets Engaged at Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown

By Noor Al-Sibai

The SEC opened an investigation into Tesla over the company failing to notify shareholders of solar panel defects that could lead to fires.

Whistleblower: Tesla Didn’t Tell Buyers Its Solar Panels Might Catch Fire

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists are really starting to get fired up about the idea of SpaceX's Starship, a massive spacecraft with big promises.

NASA Scientists: SpaceX Starship “Revolutionary” for Exploring Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffet have chosen a tiny Wyoming city to build an experimental nuclear power plant in.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Are Building an Experimental Nuclear Plant in a Tiny City

By Tony Ho Tran

Michael Rowan-Robinson, astronomer at the Imperial College London, may have found evidence for the elusive Planet Nine in 1983 infrared observations.

Scientists May Have Accidentally Spotted an Extra Planet in Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists in China say they’ve discovered a cost-effective method of creating fusion energy that could rival much more expensive counterparts.

Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion

By Tony Ho Tran

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet was able to follow along with this year's super intense solar storm from the ISS, taking pictures of breathtaking auroras.

Space Station Astronaut Captures Incredible Photo of Solar Flare Hitting Earth

By Victor Tangermann

During the days leading up to Halloween, the Sun's surface was roiling with activity, blasting powerful bursts of radiation towards the Earth.

The Sun Just Blasted the Earth With an Enormous Solar Flare

By Victor Tangermann

The US Navy still has no idea what the hell its submarine hit in the South China Sea earlier this month. Officials have yet to find out what it was.

The Navy Can’t Figure Out What Damaged Its Nuclear Submarine

By Victor Tangermann

Scientist Says the Solar System Is Surrounded by a Huge Magnetic Tunnel

Scientist Says the Solar System Is Surrounded by a Huge Magnetic Tunnel

By Tony Ho Tran

China seems to be powering a massive array of intercontinental ballistic missile silos with a huge new wind farm, so at least it's environmentally friendly.

Rejoice! China Is Powering Ballistic Missile Silos With Environmentally-Friendly Wind Turbines

By Dan Robitzski

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

US Nuclear Sub Damaged in Collision With “Unknown Object”

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Manage to Study Weather on Planet in Different Solar System

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.

Thrusters on New NASA Spacecraft Are Solar Powered

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.

This Solar-Powered RV Looks Absolutely Awesome

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.

Scientists Thrilled at Important Step Toward Practical 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.

Scientists Just Discovered the Fastest Asteroid in the Solar System

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.

The US Navy Is Working on a Solar-Powered Plane Can Fly for 90 Days Straight

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.

Renewables Overtook Coal and Nuclear Power Generation in the US Last Year

By Victor Tangermann

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

China Is Building Even More Nuclear Missile Launchers

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.

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The Earth’s Interior Is Sucking Up Huge Amounts of Carbon, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

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

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The Amazon Rainforest Is Starting to Emit More Carbon Than It Absorbs

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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A Fully Solar-Powered Car May Be Hitting the Road by 2019

By Chelsea Gohd

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

The Navy Says Its Nuclear Submarines Are Beat Up Pieces of Crap

By Victor Tangermann

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

Watch Astronauts Venture Outside the Space Station to Install Solar Panels

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.

Scientists Say That Building Too Many Wind Turbines Weakens the Wind’s Power

By Dan Robitzski

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

Cybertruck Patents Reveal “Armor Glass,” Retractable Solar Panels

By Victor Tangermann

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

US Soldiers Accidentally Reveal Nuclear Weapon Secrets

By Dan Robitzski

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

NASA Detects “Hum” Coming From Beyond Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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.

White House Approves United States’ First Massive Offshore Wind Farm

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.

Scientists: “Direct Fusion Drive” Could Get Us to the Edge of the Solar System in 10 Years

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 Reactors Shut Down by “Jellyfish-Like Organisms”

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.

This Magazine’s Website Is 100 Percent Solar Powered

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.

A School Bought Solar Panels and Saved Enough to Give All Its Teachers Raises

By Victor Tangermann

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

Japanese Mayor’s House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power

By Dan Robitzski

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

NATO Chief Wants Military Tanks to Have Solar Panels

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.

Astronomers Discover Solar System With Six Stars

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.

Materials Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper, Better Solar Panels

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.

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Saudi Arabia Is Building a Zero-Carbon City in a 100-Mile Straight Line

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Say There Was a Huge, Mysterious Object in the Early Solar System

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.

Researchers Debut Whole New Type of Solar Energy Storage

By Victor Tangermann

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

There Was a Close Call at a Nuclear Power Plant Today

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

Startup Says Solar-Powered Electric Car Never Needs to Charge

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.

Eventually, Other Stars Will Steal our Solar System’s Planets

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.

Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

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.

Humans Have Been Around for Longer Than it Took the Solar System to Form, Study Claims

By Dan Robitzski

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

Japan Is Bringing One of Its Tsunami-Damaged Nuclear Reactors Back Online

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.

New Facility Will Store Wind Power as Highly Compressed Air

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.

New Evidence: There Was Another Planet in the Solar System That Escaped

By Victor Tangermann

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

New Voyager Readings: Space Is Much Denser Outside Solar System

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.

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The White House Got Caught Burying Studies About 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.

Fusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Out

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.

Elon Musk: “Doesn’t Seem to Be Any Life in This Solar System”

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.

UK Pledges to Get 100% of Residential Power From Wind Turbines

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.

Elon Musk: Fusion Will Probably Be More Expensive Than Wind, Solar

By Victor Tangermann