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solar power

Earth

Could natural hydrogen from underground help the UK get to net zero?

Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is present in economically viable quantities

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Earth

The prospectors hunting hydrogen along a US continental rift

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Space

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to totally transform astronomy

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Environment

Fusion power may never happen if we don't fix the lithium bottleneck

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Space

One half of the moon is hotter than the other

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Chemistry

New way to pull uranium from water can help China's nuclear power push

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Environment

A clean energy source may be lurking beneath mountain ranges

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Earth

Earthquakes could be an overlooked source of underground hydrogen fuel

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KHKRFM Haumea and moons, illustration. Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. It is noted for its elongated shape, somewhat like a rugby ball. It is orbited by at least two moons and a narrow ring of rocky particles.

Space

How to spot Haumea, one of the solar system's strangest objects

Regulars

The Mysterious NWA 15915

Space

Weird meteorite may be relic of lost planet that no longer exists

A meteorite discovered in north-west Africa in 2023 didn’t come from a large asteroid or any of the known planets of the solar system – but it might have formed on a planet that was destroyed long ago

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Space

Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos

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Space

Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other planets combined

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Space

There’s a tiny chance the asteroid headed for Earth could hit the moon

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Space

How meteorites are rewriting the history of the solar system

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