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The Agonizing Reality of Intermittency When it comes to solar energy, supporters will rave about its zero emissions and ...

They are stored in the Oort cloud, a huge, diffuse sphere of cometary nuclei in the far reaches of the solar system. Close to the sun, yet still beyond Neptune, circle what may well be their ...

Below, we share six common solar panel myths and the facts behind them ... can cut down the overall cost of getting a solar energy system, making it a much better deal. It is also essential ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s. Mars rotates on its ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

There may be an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system whose presence is revealed by the strange orbit of objects beyond the eighth planet Neptune. The tantalizing prospect of a ninth ...

But as far as we know, no other bodies in the solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different? "We don't know for sure," Bradford Foley, a geodynamicist at Penn State ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The night sky throughout the solar system may be full of color. From data gleaned from a joint European-Japanese spacecraft on ...

Notably, the title belongs to nearby Venus, thanks to its dense atmosphere. NASA suggests that Mercury, despite its proximity to the Sun, is not the hottest planet because it doesn't have an ...