Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

Just outside Jupiter, one region may have forged six meteorite parent bodies

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...
Data Center Frontier

Cowboy Space and the Case for Orbital AI Data Centers

Cowboy Space is developing a vertically integrated orbital AI infrastructure platform combining rockets, solar power, and ...
pv magazine International

Intelligent solar siting neutralizes local opposition at near-zero cost

Macro-siting models that protect sensitive habitats and farmland from utility-scale development reduce permitting friction for a mere 0.17% cost premium.
Labroots

Venus Clouds Driven by Solar System's Largest Waves

What explains the unique behavior of Venus’ clouds? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...
CNN

Astronomers find atmosphere around a solar system object that shouldn’t have one

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of an ...
SiliconANGLE

Standard Intelligence raises $75M to develop efficient computer use models

Standard Intelligence Inc., a six-person artificial intelligence startup, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Sequoia and Spark Capital led the round. They were joined by ...
Science Daily

NASA scientist says a mysterious "fifth force" may be hiding in our solar system

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something ...
Electrek

Tesla owner uses emergency solar to trickle charge after running out of battery in desert

A YouTuber driving a Tesla Model X the entire length of the Americas ran out of battery in Chile’s Atacama Desert — the driest place on Earth — and had to deploy emergency solar panels on the side of ...
PV Tech

California regulator rejects community solar pricing model, triggering industry backlash

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has issued a proposed decision rejecting a solar industry-backed Net Value Billing Tariff (NVBT) for community solar programmes, and instead advancing ...
Scientific American

Astronomers witness the birth of a new solar system

Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...
Lexington Herald Leader

Latest delay to getting Lexington solar project off the ground? A model airplane club

One of the many warplane models flew over the airstrip during the Lexington Model Airplane Club's annual Giant Model Airplane Show held at their airfield in Lexington, Ky. on Saturday, September 15, ...