From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space weather. Space ...

A once-overlooked technology that taps into the Earth's heat to generate electricity could supply up to 20% of the ...

Power grids located in the remote areas mostly show the features of high inverter-fed energy penetration, low grid strength, weak maintenance forces and high natural disaster risks. Therefore, ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

The metallic lines on solar panels aren't there for decoration. Their job is to collect and move electricity throughout the ...

Weather forecasting is not easy. The truth is that predicting future weather conditions over broad, or even narrow, swaths of ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

With the continuous depletion of traditional fuels, renewable energy resources have been main topic of research. The solar energy is mostly studied due to the abundant amount of sunlight that is ...