When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: rbkomar/Getty Images Earth isn't alone in orbiting our sun; it's joined by a bunch of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The sun is expected to last another 5 billion years, at which point it will become unstable and ...

Americans’ investment in solar panels has ramped up mightily since the passage, in August 2022, of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which offers a generous federal tax credit to homeowners who ...

The cost of everything is rising these days, and that most definitely includes our staggeringly high energy bills, which a ...

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...

Switching to solar energy is a major financial commitment and, if you’re like most homeowners, you’ll want to know how long it will take to recoup your investment. This average recovery time, called ...

Our solar system has been around for 4.6 billion years. While that sounds like a long time, it's just a blip in the 13.8 billion-year story of the universe. And one day, the solar system will cease to ...