A highly acclaimed Caltech scientist was fatally shot on the porch of his home in Los Angeles. At around 6:10 a.m. local time ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Clean energy advocates, solar industry groups and state agencies say Xcel’s plan for virtual power plants doesn’t live up to ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Scientists say a nearby red dwarf star hosts a planetary lineup that looks like a mirror image of our own solar system, with ...

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

The Dominican Republic has approved new regulations for rooftop solar, shortening approval times, digitizing processes, removing penetration caps, and increasing annual compensation for surplus energy ...

Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions ...

Astronomers have found a compact solar system whose planets line up in a way that, according to current models, should not be possible. Around the small star LHS 1903, a dense rocky world orbits on ...

The planet's lopsided magnetic field is twisting the light shows.