Our home, planet Earth, is part of a system of bodies that orbit a central star – the Sun. This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

But which parts should you choose? Low Tech Magazine has the answer, in the form of a guide to building a small solar power system. The result is an extremely comprehensive guide, and though it ...

Crucially, this magnetic field grabs and then accelerates particles from the relentless solar wind — a stream ... exploring the greater Jupiter system, also carries a vault.) ...

There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. But astronomers have spent the better part of a century ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

This was called solar wind. The sun's activity peaked ... To avoid that, the plan for such an event involved switching off parts of the power system until it was over, which could take up to ...

Solar inverters are a necessary but often forgotten part of a home solar panel system since they convert sunlight into usable electricity for your home appliances. Without a solar inverter ...