We all picture the Solar System as a neat cosmic racetrack with planets orbiting the Sun on a flat, organized path. But have ...

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The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Astronomers are abuzz with the discovery of a rogue planet, 2MASS J05325346+0919037, which is set to pass within 0.05 ...

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But as researchers have discovered more moonlike objects in our solar system—including 128 moons orbiting Saturn just this ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

The Westbrooks’ two-story home in Fairview, Texas, has become a pilgrimage of sorts for those contemplating solar design and ...

SRM, a form of highly risky and speculative geoengineering that seeks to artificially cool the earth by dimming the sun, is ...

A fusion of technologies are turning once-separate industries into a single, self-reinforcing system. And it's about to ...

Artificial intelligence appears weightless — just code in the cloud, thinking at the speed of light. Yet behind that digital mist lies a heavy, physical world built from metal, electricity and heat.

Experts on sustainable energy say ice thermal energy storage is among the options commercial buildings can use to reduce electricity demand or store excess energy. Some commercial buildings use ...