Nature-inspired solar lasers could sustainably power space missions
International scientists, including a team from Heriot-Watt University, has announced plans to develop a revolutionary new ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe is solving long-standing mysteries about the sun. Here's what we've learned so far.
The goal of the Parker Solar Probe mission is to investigate the mysteries of the sun's corona, its outer atmosphere. What ...
Scientists launch first satellite mission to test revolutionary new solar tech — here's how it stacks up
A new solar panel material called a perovskite tandem solar cell is being tested in space — and the results are looking good, ...
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Hydrogels produce clean fuel using sunlight in artificial photosynthesis breakthrough
Researchers have developed innovative hydrogels that mimic photosynthesis to produce hydrogen from sunlight and water.
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Solar System’s True Center Isn’t the Sun, Animation Shows
It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...
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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...
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20 million years to become a star: Cosmic clock unlocks mystery of sun’s birth time
By studying decay of bound-state beta decay of thallium-205 (205Tl81+), scientists can better understand the timing and conditions in the early solar system, giving clues about when the sun formed.