
Chinese scientists intend to chase solar eclipse in space
Total solar eclipses formed by the moon shadowing the sun are spectacular opportunities for scientists to observe the sun's corona, but too short and rare to capture.
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Total solar eclipses formed by the moon shadowing the sun are spectacular opportunities for scientists to observe the sun's corona, but too short and rare to capture.
Aug 20, 2018

A Chinese scientist says the country's solar radio heliograph is likely to cooperate with NASA's recently launched Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun.
Aug 20, 2018

Details of a 280MW solar farm have been unveiled in South Australia as the first part of Sanjeev Gupta's global GFG Alliance US$1 billion, one-gigawatt dispatchable renewable energy program.
Aug 17, 2018

Brown Distributing Company teamed up with Freedom Solar Power to install a massive 481-kilowatt roof-mount system on its facility, making Brown the first beverage distribution company in Texas to "go green" with solar panels.
Aug 17, 2018

The Chinese government said it made the necessary move to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization over solar tariffs imposed by the United States.
Aug 15, 2018

China has blasted US tariffs on solar panel imports, filing a complaint at the World Trade Organization in the latest salvo of the trade battle between the world's two economic giants.
Aug 15, 2018

Historic space weather may help us understand what's coming next, according to new research by the University of Warwick.
Aug 14, 2018

NASA on Sunday blasted off its first-ever spaceship to explore the Sun, the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe, on a strategic mission to protect the Earth by unveiling the mysteries of dangerous solar storms.
Aug 12, 2018

NASA postponed until Sunday the launch of the first ever spacecraft to fly directly toward the Sun on a mission to plunge into our star's sizzling atmosphere and unlock its mysteries.
Aug 11, 2018

On August 11, NASA plans to launch Earth's first spacecraft to venture inside the orbits of Venus and Mercury to touch the very edge of the Sun's fiery corona.
Aug 10, 2018

Earth is constantly being hammered by charged particles emitted by the Sun that have enough power to make life on Earth almost impossible.
Aug 10, 2018

NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds.
Aug 10, 2018

Parker Solar Probe will soon become the spacecraft to travel the closest to the Sun, by positioning itself a little over 6 million kilometers from our star's surface.
Aug 10, 2018

Justin Kasper, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan, is a mission principal investigator on the Parker Solar Probe, which is scheduled for launch Aug.
Aug 9, 2018

A new NASA mission, set to launch on August 11, will whip through the Sun's sizzling outer atmosphere, or corona, flying closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before it.
Aug 8, 2018

Scientists at the Lobachevsky University have been working for several years to develop solar-blind photodetectors operating in the UV spectral band.
Aug 8, 2018