Scientists warn that extreme space weather could influence human behavior, from panic buying to protests and misinformation.

Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.

Since July 2025, the European Space Agency's pair of Proba-3 satellites has already created 57 artificial solar eclipses. So ...

A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

On August 19, 2022, solar astronomers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on the Hawaiian island of Maui ...

The singlet fission experiment captured energy with high efficiency. (Kyushu University) Scientists are always pushing the ...

In 1607, Johannes Kepler projected an image of the Sun onto a piece of paper and spotted a dark smudge. He thought he was ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Get the Popular ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

After years of testing portable solar panels, I've found that small adjustments to my setup can yield massive efficiency ...