NREL has updated its Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart.The tool highlights the highest confirmed conversion efficiencies of research cells for a range of PV technologies. “Everything up to the ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a ...

Astronomers are welcoming the newest and most distant object in the solar system – a dwarf planet orbiting more than 100 times further from the Sun than Earth. And because its discoverers aren ...

In the video, which comes via Laughing Squid, the sizes of some of our solar system’s natural satellites are compared.The video begins with S/2009 S 1, a roughly thousand-foot-wide “propeller ...