Saturn has always been one of the most recognizable planets in our solar system. But recent observations show unusual changes unfolding in its atmosphere and polar regions. From shifting storms to ...

"The previous record for a comet spindown went to 103P/Hartley 2, which slowed its rotation from 17 to 19 hours over 90 days, ...

Home battery systems aren't just for backup power anymore. In some states, homeowners are tapping into stored energy to sidestep peak electricity prices and lower their bills.

A team led by Shadia Habbal at the Institute for Astronomy — drawing on more than a decade of eclipse observations — for the first time clearly identified turbulent structures in the sun’s corona, ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have uncovered new clues about how energy moves through the sun's outer atmosphere, using one of nature's rarest events as their window: total solar eclipses.

Legislation in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island would allow small solar panels to plug directly into home outlets, expanding access to clean energy.

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

NASA shared some new infrared images of the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet this week, showing the visitor brightening up in a dramatic outburst while exiting a solar system. The images were taken by the ...

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the planets orbit the Sun in ...