Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft orbited and studied a comet hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, collecting data on the space rock’s structure and geology. Now, the ESA is ask...
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Solar eclipses are beautiful events on Earth — but what does a solar eclipse look like on Mars? While most of us may never see one with our own eyes, NASA's Perseverance rover recorded one in impeccable detail. Wh...
Garmin’s latest rugged solar-powered smartwatch, the Instinct 2, promises unlimited battery life. You just have to stay in the sun.Looking more like a rugged digital watch such as Casio’s legendary G-Shock than an Appl...
The first partial solar eclipse of this year will be visible in several parts of the world on Saturday, April 30 coinciding with the extremely rare event, 'Black Moon'. The 'Black Moon' is a rare occu...
The best solar lights will transform your backyard as soon as the sun sets. Solar lights can be found in most gardens nowadaystheyre sustainable and they add to the ambience wherever placed. They can be used for practica...
Another scary solar storm is going to strike the Earth today, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Lately, the Sun has been shooting solar flares incessantly. And these solar flares ar...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spotted a strong solar flare being fired out from the surface of the Sun. The solar flare was fired in the sunspot named AR3006. The sunspot has been labeled as ‘...
Phones are essential to people for all sorts of reasons, but even if your device has the biggest battery, it's pretty much worthless if it has no juice. This is why having multiple ways to keep your phone going is h...
On January 8, 2014, at 17:05:34 UT, an approximately meter-sized rock from space streaked through the sky off the coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, burning up with an energy equivalent to about 110 metric tons of ...
Jackery’s Solar Generator 2000 Pro kit is here to bend nature’s will to your desire to take your modern tech lifestyle off the grid. Jackery provides the Explorer 2000 Pro Portable Power Station and six SolarSaga 200W ...
Audio player loading Casio has revealed a line of five new G-Shock watches that add solar charging to one of the company's most popular designs. The new G-Shock GA-B2100 series are based on the super slim GA-2100 li...
NASA, on May 3rd, tweeted that it observed a solar flare peaking at 9:25 AM EDT (6:55 PM IST) and it was caught in its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) footage. While the space agency did not discuss any specific guideli...
Fully solar-powered handheld gadgets have so far mostly been limited to ultra-low power devices like clocks, thermometers and calculators. Anything more complicated than that will generally have a battery and some means ...
Solar Eclipse 2022: The rare sight of a solar eclipse leaves everyone awestruck. And now, the world has an opportunity to experience this rare phenomenon on April 30, 2022 when we will witness the first partial solar ecl...
Hooking up a laser to a CNC gantry isn't exactly an Earth-shattering innovation, but it does make for a useful tool. Even a cheap diode laser mounted to an old 3D printer can do engraving, marking, or even light-dut...
Climate change, one of the major global concerns today, has made it clear that fossil fuels are detrimental to our environment and are not a sustainable source of energy. It is imperative to adopt clean sources of energy...
Black Hat Asia Software made unsafe by dependencies should be fixed without users needing to interact with the source of the problem, according to US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, who serves in the Executive Offi...
Just ahead of Earth Day on Friday, Amazon has announced investments in 37 more renewable energy projects around the world. The company says these will increase its renewable energy capacity by almost 30 percent, up from ...
The Sun is a hotbed of activity. Last couple of weeks have been filled with continuous explosions and solar flares being set off. The Earth was recently a victim to such high intensity X-class solar flares which caused r...
Oracle has given Solaris 10 users an easier way to migrate their apps – to a more modern version of Solaris.The help comes in the form of sysdiff – a Python script that Big Red states will analyze a Solaris 10 rig to f...
Our yellow sun is what gives Superman his powers, so of course, it can also keep your phone charged while you're on the go! It's almost weird, right? Using nature to keep technology working. Keep in mind that w...
Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk won’t have to hand over as much as $13 billion in shares of the electric car maker he got in a buyout of SolarCity after a judge found the world’s richest person didn’t improperly ram t...
The aerospace manufacturer company led by Elon Musk, Space Exploration (SpaceX) launched a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:27 PM EDT this Friday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying another big batch of s...
Time flies! This weekend marks the end of the first stage of the 2022 Hackaday Prize, and your chance to enter your alternative-energy projects. There are ten $500 prizes up for grabs, and there's still time to whip...
Baily's beads are beads of sunlight caused when sunlight shines between mountains and other features on the moon. These Baily's beads are from the February 16, 1991, annular solar eclipse. Image via Fred Espena...
Finally a good reason to stay up on Sunday night: A total lunar eclipse.Lunar watchers throughout the United States can experience some heavenly wonder as Earth’s shadow covers the moon during prime viewing hours the ni...
Is our Solar System comparable to other solar systems? What do other systems look like? We know from exoplanet studies that many other systems have hot Jupiters, massive gas giants that orbit extremely close to their sta...
When you hear about patents from smartphone, we could say, peculiar, the great giants of technology involved are not many.The first names that can come to mind are Google, Apple, Samsung, occasionally LG and, above all, ...
Jackery announced the Solo Generator 2000 Pro and SolarSaga 200W portable solar panel at an event held in New York City on May 10. Both gadgets are are bundled together in a $6,199 package that can help ease your relianc...
Energy tech pioneer Octopus Energy Group today announces a financial and strategic partnership with Xlinks, the company building the worlds largest subsea power cable to deliver renewable energy from Morocco to the UK.Gr...
REC Group, an international pioneering solar energy company headquartered in Norway, today launched its latest high-efficiency solar panel at Intersolar Europe 2022. With its high-power density innovations, the newREC Al...
In September 1859, the Earth was struck by an awe-inspiring coronal mass ejection (CME). Astronomers observed a brilliantly bright white flare emerging from the Sun, and auroras were seen as far south as Cuba and Jamaica...
The first eclipse season of 2022 reaches its climax this coming weekend, with a fine total lunar eclipse transpiring on Sunday night into Monday morning.All of South America and most of North America will see the eclip...
