The Solar@Sea II project features two floats with 20kWp of modules. Image: Wim Soppe. The economic viability of deploying thin-film floating solar systems at offshore locations is being explored by a ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien solar system in which six planets are orbiting a sunlike star, with five of the newfound worlds in close-knit configuration. Few stars have been observed with ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this BTN special, we go on a journey to the Solar System. We find out more about the NASA space ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Most potentially habitable exoplanets are at least hundreds of light-years away, but Wolf 1061c is just next door, galactically speaking. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

THE field is still open for the formulation de novo of theories of the origin of the solar system. No observational test has ever been discovered which would impose a definitive restriction upon the ...

IN a recent communication 1, Dr. M. M. Woolfson has outlined a model to account for the origin of the solar system. In common with many earlier hypotheses 2, he postulates an interaction between the ...

Astronomers may have detected a dozen large objects lurking beyond the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, suggesting there could be another equally massive, "second Kuiper Belt" hiding ...

Pioneer 10 was the first probe to cross the asteroid belt, traversing it between July 1972 and February 1973. Arriving at Jupiter in December 1973, it passed some 132,000 kilometres from its cloud ...