Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Now that Tesla has announced detailed pricing for its Solar Roof, which the company started rolling out in August, ...

Metric Units for the Solar System is an exploration of our relationship with the systems of ‘standardized units’ we have created to order society; examining the various tensions implicit in the ...

Whenever the sun shines on his Sifton-area home, Daryl Travis has many reasons to feel great. Cheerful weather is just the start of it. With two complementary solar-energy systems positioned on his ...

We should be working to help stabilize electricity bills through programs such as net metering, which allows households to hedge against rate hikes, Solar United Neighbors’ Brandon Praileau ...

Setting up a solar-power system in your home is a fairly complicated endeavor. Before you even start installing solar panels, you’ve got to figure out how much they’ll cost, how many you need, and how ...

Americans’ investment in solar panels has ramped up mightily since the passage, in August 2022, of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which offers a generous federal tax credit to homeowners who ...

Worcester, Mass. - Sept. 23, 2020 - Using a limited set of mathematical equations, Worcester Polytechnic Institute mathematical sciences professor Mayer Humi said he has confirmed a 224-year-old math ...

Astronomers studying the outer solar system say the unusual alignment of distant objects points to the influence of Planet 9.

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Some of my favorite things to look for in the night sky (besides the International Space Station) are the planets. If you need help finding them, I recommend Heavens-Above. It's a website where you ...