Our Solar System is simple—one star, planets orbiting around it. But what happens in a system with multiple stars? Scientists have discovered a planet in a seven-star system, raising big questions ...

Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...

Eskom is encouraging the public to register a solar system as all unregistered grid-tied solar systems are now considered illegal.

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

The chance that this hypothetical object is what warped our Solar System is actually very high—and it might even come around ...

Scientists from Qatar's Hamad Bin Khalifa University have designed a novel solar ... system uses thermal energy from the PV/T unit to provide cooling for different system parts. The system's ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

The NH 3-fueled SOFC system is designed for a target ship, with a rated power of 96 kW and an electrical efficiency of 60.13%, meeting the requirements for rated cruising conditions. The IAC, ...

This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...

Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.

Don't let the diagrams fool you, our Solar System's orbits aren't perfectly circular or flat. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Even given the right galactic alignments, the odds that ...