Solar panels became a powerful alternative for renewable energy a few years ago. But as technology advances, new alternatives ...

Imagine harnessing the power of the sun in a way that could push solar panel efficiency beyond current records to an astounding 45%. This could soon be a reality, thanks to the innovative concept of ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

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Could we redesign solar panels so we can harvest crops and renewable energy in the same space? Solar energy production and farming land benefit from flat, open, sunny fields. But solar panels and ...

The secretary of the Department of Energy made this statement on Sept. 2 concerning a solar-energy incident: “Even if you wrapped the entire planet in a solar panel, you would only be producing 20% of ...