For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

TIM:When I was up on the ISS, that different perspective really brought home the sheer scale of the universe. The vastness of our Solar System and the distances involved is something that's hard ...

While rooftop solar panels are common throughout the Bay Area, this would be the first solar energy and storage infrastructure built on the Peninsula. Photo by Sana Dadani. This story was written ...

leading to the establishment of a continental-scale prototype Antarctic ice sheet configuration. While the study raises the possibility of a link between the past traverse of the solar system ...

Very low backgroud detectors are required to identify rare events, including solar neutrinos, searches for dark matter ... The general design of the scintillator purification system employed ...