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Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

Proba-3 is creating artificial solar eclipses in space, giving scientists a steady new way to study the Sun’s inner corona ...

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The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

On Wednesday, Dec. 3, the Plainfield Planning Board voted to approve New Leaf Energy’s application for a special permit for a 23-acre industrial solar farm, filed on behalf of my neighbor. The ...

The U.S. is forecast to add a lot less power from renewables than analysts previously expected. The potential slowdown comes ...

Just when you think you’ve wrapped your mind around computers that can put your dog in front of the Eiffel Tower or chatbots ...

Thanks to the widely adopted Gregorian calendar, most people have marked the new year on Jan. 1 for centuries. But with so ...