Even if the specific monthly peak of the cycle has passed, it doesn't mean solar activity is over. Strong solar activity ...

Scientists at the United States Idaho National Laboratory (INL) are carrying out tests for ‘fusion blanket’ technologies to create a critical component of the nuclear fusion reactor. The work at INL ...

Five hundred years ago, the Aztec civilization in today’s Mexico believed that the sun and all its power was sustained by blood from human sacrifice. Today, we know that the sun, along with all other ...

A Knoxville-based fusion powerhouse says it's solved the fundamental science of harnessing the sun's power to produce electricity.

A cutting-edge project to test “fusion blanket” technologies is taking shape, with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ...

The characteristic of stars, such as our sun, is that their gravity keeps the nuclei present on them so close and hot that a fusion process is triggered, producing a huge amount of energy. On earth, ...

Most of us perceive time as an arrow, a one-way trip into the future. And while that’s true, nature has a way of interpolating circular patterns onto that linear model — day follows night, the ...

The life cycle for a particular star depends on its size. The diagram shows the life cycles of stars that are: about the same size as the Sun; far greater than the Sun in size. All stars begin ...