5 min read NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind ‘U-Turn’ Images captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the SunContinue Reading
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star in this image released on Sept. 10, 2025. Stellar jets, which are powered by the gravitational energy released as a starContinue Reading
The official portrait of the Expedition 74 crew on the International Space Station. Top row from left, Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Zena Cardman, both NASA astronauts, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos Flight Engineer Oleg Platonov. Bottom row, Roscosmos Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov,Continue Reading
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An Aurora Energy Research report explores how storage could be co-located with AI training facilities. By Arcelia Martin With data center developers in Texas and most other states now commonly deploying fossil fuel generators as backup power sources, a nascent industry from the renewable side of power generation—battery storage—has startedContinue Reading
Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like a stabilizer that sets everything up correctly from the start. This simple shift in understanding changes how scientists viewContinue Reading
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Capacity additions to the Texas grid continue to be led by renewables. By Arcelia Martin Battery storage facilities and solar farms powered virtually all capacity growth in Texas’ electric grid throughout 2025, as the home of the nation’s oil and gas industry created almost twice as much new solar powerContinue Reading
Conservation groups in Utah are relocating beavers that have been labeled as nuisances to new habitats. Beavers provide several benefits to the ecosystem such as building habitats and reducing runoff.Continue Reading
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.Continue Reading
5 min read NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions This video highlights the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A center of excellence for current and future rover, aerial, and other surface missions, the ROC will support partnerships and technology transfer to catalyze theContinue Reading