The amount of sunlight, or solar radiation, that a location receives makes a big impact on weather conditions, crop success, rainfall and overall climate trends. Today, instruments called ...

Long before modern technology and scientific instruments, Indian architects and rulers designed temples, observatories and ...

NOTE: Solar program statuses often change with new laws or funding. Always check with official state or utility sources for the most current information. Solar incentives come in two main forms: ...

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The ...

Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple ...

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

If your dates are flexible, 2027's eclipse may be the one worth prioritizing; totality arrives in the middle of the day, ...

Fresh satellite images have captured one of Russia's most active volcanoes melting snow from the inside out as volcanic heat ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery of superheated plasma and 3 prominences in a magnetic field dance with the ...

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a small icy world beyond Pluto, where gravity should not hold gas for long. The discovery raises a big question for planetary scientists. A world ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. According to NASA and NOAA, the sun is now in its “solar ...