California is the latest state to pass a law making it easier to install balcony-friendly solar panels. Renewable energy experts think the new technology is about to take off.

Solar farms have a land problem. When a new project was planned in a St. Louis suburb, the county zoning board rejected the design, arguing that it took up too much space and sat too close to a ...

From Nov. 12–28, a parade of planets, or planetary alignment, will string together five celestial bodies along a vast trail stretching nearly two billion miles long. For observers on Earth, the lineup ...

The question of where the U.S.–China artificial intelligence arms race is heading weighs heavily on the future of both ...

Solar is often viewed as an investment in 'free electricity' - but your location, choice of financing, and ability to store energy can all tip the scales in your favor or against it. Your electricity ...

Researchers have used some of the most detailed simulations yet of the early universe to investigate how the first stars and ...

Francis Halzen, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who pioneered the detection of ghostly particles from outer space has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. On Tuesday, members of the ...

Two of the world’s most strategic maritime chokepoints, the Suez Canal and the Bab el Mandeb Strait, are bordered by African shores. Attacks by the Houthis, the Yemeni rebel group, on commercial ...

A weak monsoon in India is hitting farmers, water supplies and the power system, while raising wider questions about increasingly erratic rainfall and the economic costs.

As free and abundant as sunlight may be, harnessing its power remains stubbornly difficult for homeowners. While the cost of ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to Francis Halzen from the ...

Explore a breathtaking visual simulation of a hypothetical Dyson sphere and its awe-inspiring megastructure designs as viewed from the unique vantage points of every planet across the Solar System.