A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it's feasible is another matter.

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found possible signs of ancient life in rocks on Mars, keeping scientists up at night.

Photovoltaic efficiency has come a long way over the decades, but there’s always room for improvement. A new study analyses how to make solar thermoelectric generators, or STEGs, more efficient by ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

The Canadian government is putting more than CAD 33 million toward a 32 MW Indigenous-owned solar project in the south-central province of Saskatchewan. The Wicehtowak Solar project, to be located by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The 15 planet-forming disks around young stars that have been studied in detail by exoALMA. Here ...

Exoplanets—worlds orbiting distant stars—were once only theory, until scientists found the first evidence beyond our solar system. New Social Security report raises alarms for 300 million Americans ...

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

A number of local citizens were in Warrenton on Aug. 19 while Horizon Solar was conducting its Coffee Hour event at its office in the Taylor Building (not pictured) on Main Street. Protestors are ...

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