NREL has unveiled a new version of its Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart. The tool highlights the highest confirmed conversion efficiencies of research cells for a range of PV technologies. With the ...

A passing star, or a stellar flyby, with the potential to pull Neptune out of its orbit by just 0.1%, could mean catastrophe for the entire solar system. But don’t worry — it won’t happen in our ...

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As few would disagree, large-format modules are the talk of the solar industry at the moment and many are asking whether bigger is necessarily better. However, there is one thing that is getting ...

Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...

While there is a lot of industry investment in space tourism these days, we’re still a long way from the technology leaps (think warp speed and hyperdrives) required for interplanetary travel. But the ...

The back-to-back eruptions caused radio blackouts across two hemispheres as the active sunspots turn to face Earth.