In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Scientists have used a CPLEX-based MIP model and tested it on a section of the 10 MW Masdar City Solar Photovoltaic Plant. In their simulation, they assume the use of two robotic cleaners to operate ...

Journalists gather around a rehearsal model of the sample return capsule on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at Dugway Proving Grounds on Thursday, July 20, 2023. NASA and military personnel have been using ...

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert—essentially ... have developed a more precise way to model these steam worlds ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - Just in time for the total solar eclipse next April, Arkansas State University is announcing the installation of the Voyage Model Solar System on the ...

Large solar farms in the deserts of China are not only producing vast amounts of electricity but also reshaping the ecosystems beneath them, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research. A ...

Sub-Neptune exoplanets tend to be much closer to their host star than Earth is to the Sun and are thought to have atmospheres made of steam over layers of an exotic phase of water that behaves like ...