Rather than directly converting photons into electricity, concentrated solar energy uses mirrors to turn sunlight into heat, ...

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Nearly eight years after its historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons probe is getting ready for another round of observations made from the icy edge of the solar system—and this time, its field of ...

Although key details are missing from the story of how our Solar System formed, recent discoveries are helping scientists ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our ...

The small Solar System bodies (SSSBs) preserve records of the formation and evolution of the Solar System. In particular, the ...

While using a new computer model to analyze Voyager data, scientists found the Sun’s distant magnetic field is made up of bubbles approximately 100 million miles wide. The bubbles are created when ...

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Research in Solar System planetary science spans the origin, evolution and present‐day processes affecting planets, moons, minor bodies and their interactions. The field addresses how protoplanetary ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...