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The planets of our solar system follow nice, predictable orbits, but it was not always so. In the chaotic early days of the solar system , Jupiter and its fellow giant planets seem to have migrated from their birthplaces into the stable orbits that we observe today
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Feed SubscriptionWhat’s Flinging Comets Out of the Oort Cloud?
What's nudging comets our way?
Read More »Big Space: The Scale of the Solar System
Key concepts Solar system [More]
Read More »Why Intel’s First Venture Into Consulting Is With A Silicon Valley Solar Startup
Will applying the lessons learned making computer chips to solar panels result in really cheap solar power? Solar startups often have impressively big ideas about how they're going to scale up the next revolutionary technology, but few get the job done
Read More »Comet Bops Past Neptune Cleanly
If the solar system were a Peanuts cartoon, the role of Pigpen would be played by a comet.
Read More »French Oil Giant Total Spends $1.4 Billion To Control SunPower, But Why?
Last week, French oil and gas giant Total spent an attention-grabbing $1.4 billion for a majority stake in U.S solar company SunPower .
Read More »Why Google Is Investing $168 Million in a Giant Solar Farm
We had a feeling that BrightSource Energy was destined for big things when Google first announced it was investing $10 million in the solar thermal startup in 2008. After all, Google only invests in impressive ( TechnoServe , eSolar ) and profoundly weird ( wind power from kites , anyone?) companies.
Read More »What Happens When Solar Power Is as Cheap as Coal
It's a horrible paradox that bad things are generally cheaper: Like Big Macs. Or H&M. Top of this list, of course, is coal power, which is really quite horrible for the planet but is also deliciously cheap to produce
Read More »Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Reveals the Secret Dirtiness of the Solar Power Industry
Can clean solar energy offset dirty production methods?
Read More »Habitable exoplanets could exist at white dwarfs, or near dark matter
Astronomers are probably just a few years from the first-ever finding of an Earth twin outside our solar system, that is, a planet roughly the size of Earth orbiting at a similarly temperate distance from a sun-like star.
Read More »NASA probe returns first-ever orbiter photo of Mercury
A NASA spacecraft has captured the first-ever image of Mercury taken from orbit around the planet.
Read More »The Trouble With Solar Booms
Ontario, Canada is in the midst of a solar boom. The province contains the largest operational solar facility in the world--a 97 megawatt behemoth built by First Solar--and has contracts for over 1,400 more megawatts of solar power ready to be built.
Read More »NASA Takes Aim at Mars Instead of Europa
By Adam Mann A showdown over the course of Solar System exploration has ended with a qualified victory for Mars. [More]
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