Although most simulations created conditions very unlike the current solar system, the researchers found that in approximately 1% of the simulations, the visitor's passage altered the giant ...

Could our solar system have been temporarily exposed to an enhanced flux of cosmic-rays at some point in the ancient past?

Memphis Light Gas and Water is taking baby steps this year to create its own solar power system, but a major hurdle stands in ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

"An early solar system containing five giant planets was proposed after numerical models indicated that this is more likely to reproduce the architecture of the current solar system, reproducing ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

PG&E announced a planned 65 percent rate hike over the next three years, inspiring me to get a quote on installing solar panels.

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets ... zipping nearly as close to the sun as Mars's current orbit. This study suggests that the currently slightly ...

The current solar tax credit rate will get phased ... For a homeowner currently paying this amount, a 6 kW solar system worth $17,100 would generate a federal tax credit of $5,130.

The process creates a new architecture that makes improvements on cell, module, and system ... under current silver prices, as silver typically represents about 10% of a solar module's cost ...