This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Jana Rose Schleis from KBIA. In an ...

An enormous solar project is moving forward in California, on land that farmers have had to keep fallow as the state restricts over-pumping the aquifers used to irrigate crops.

There is a constant outward flow of charged particles from the Sun. This flow, known as the solar wind, moves across space and reaches Earth every day.

While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

Solar panels at the 180-megawatt Madison Fields Solar project in Pike Township, Madison County. The project is one of about a dozen large-scale solar projects that have state approval, are under ...

Carroll County’s leaders say they don’t want solar panels on farmland, but with Maryland moving to scale up renewable energy, the county essentially has no way to stop solar developers from coming in ...