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4 reasons to convince your boss to let you miss work for the total solar eclipse
The total solar eclipse is in the middle of the workday this Monday. Here are 4 reasons that will c…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Is there really another planet hiding deep inside our Earth?
Scientists theorise that approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal collision, termed the "gia…
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Tata Power Renewable Energy, NHPC Renewable join hands for installation of rooftop solar projects
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in this regard was signed on July 17, 2024 between Deepesh …
PTI
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Mercury's shrinking history revealed through surface craters: insights from the planet's shriveling past
While missions to explore the moon's surface are numerous, the same cannot be said for Mercury. How…
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How to see a double meteor shower on Tuesday night with a chance of fireballs
Whether you're in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, you can catch two different types of meteor …
Jessica Orwig
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We put Elon Musk's dream to colonize Mars up against Jeff Bezos' vision of living in space — and one is more realistic
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dream of colonizing space, but have very different ideas of how to do it. …
Ellyn Lapointe
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A rare 'Devil comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.
Cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka the Devil comet or Mother of Dragons comet, may be visible …
Ellyn Lapointe
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Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface
A Helio Year: With a total solar eclipse across the US, a NASA spacecraft "landing" on the sun, and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Residential solar is struggling. One company's add-on is helping it hit 1 million installations.
Sunrun CEO Mary Powell said the company is focusing on a "battery-first" strategy and generating ca…
Catherine Boudreau
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Russia's war pushed Europe to a tipping point on wind and solar
Wind and solar generated more EU electricity than fossil fuels in the first half of the year for th…
Catherine Boudreau
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Russia's war pushed Europe to a tipping point on wind and solar
Wind and solar generated more EU electricity than fossil fuels in the first half of the year for th…
Catherine Boudreau
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Global electricity demand is forecast to grow by around 4% in 2024
The world's demand for electricity is rising at its fastest rate in years, driven by robust economi…
ANI
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NASA is investing in a rocket that could get humans to Mars and back in 2 months — and travel at 100,000 mph
The Pulsed Plasma Rocket could significantly shorten a round-trip to Mars, reduce risks to astronau…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Elon Musk has reportedly offered his sperm to help colonize Mars. It's unclear if that's possible.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk may be uniting two of his biggest life projects: colonizing Mars and having lo…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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India plans to produce 500 GW power from non-fossil sources by 2030
In this budget, Rs 21,000 crore has been earmarked for renewable energy, while the plan is to incre…
PTI
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A cluster of sunspots 15 times bigger than Earth could send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday
The cluster of sunspots could send solar weather our way as early as Saturday, though it's difficul…
Marianne Guenot
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At least 7 stars in our galaxy have the potential to harbor advanced alien technology, researchers find
After surveying 5 million stars throughout our galaxy, researchers identified seven that may host D…
Ellyn Lapointe
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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system
Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …
Maiya Focht
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In Darkness: Here’s what last week’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse looked like from space!
The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, a space-based apparatus from NASA, managed to capture a sna…
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Jeff Bezos has a vision to colonize space with a trillion people. We asked experts to put it to the test.
Jeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion humans live in the solar system. But experts are ske…