NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples Reveal Ancient Solar System Secrets and Jupiter’s Hidden Role
Samples retrieved from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu are providing scientists with unprecedented insights into the conditions that shaped our Solar System roughly 4.5 billion years ago. A groundbreaking chemical analysis…
USDA Finalizes New Rules Effectively Ending Solar Funding Under Rural Energy Program
WASHINGTON — Following a prolonged series of regulatory stops and starts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has officially implemented sweeping changes to a long-standing federal initiative designed to help farmers…
California Embraces Balcony Solar, Paving the Way for a New Era of Renewable Energy Access
As free and abundant as sunlight may be, harnessing its power has historically remained a stubbornly difficult endeavor for everyday homeowners. While the cost of solar energy has plummeted by…
New Yale Research Reveals the Early Solar System Was Remarkably Selective in Building Planets
The earliest chapters of our solar system’s history were characterized by a far more selective assembly process than scientists previously understood. When the young Sun was newly formed and surrounded…
Ukraine’s Decentralized Energy Revolution: How Solar Power Is Keeping the Country Alive Amid Russian Strikes
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Kyiv Independent. On a crisp spring day earlier this year, a group of 10 men stood intently on the rooftop…