Solar fuel's drawback is that it remains expensive to produce, but scientists working at Synhelion say technological advances will allow them to commericially produce the fuel by around 2040.

Not only is it the world's most powerful solar telescope, it's also the largest. Built with about 150 tons of steel, it sits atop the 10,000-foot-high (3,048-meter) summit of the volcanic mountain.

Biology major Mia Gil uses a telescope at the Center for Sciences at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on June 2, 2025. Photo by Elizabeth Tirheimer Pierce College’s Department of Physics and ...

A standoff in Pierce County as Keith Swank and officials clash over Washington’s immigration law and ICE collaboration. Dive into the unfolding legal battle.

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the sharpest-ever images of the sun’s surface, revealing ultra-fine bright and dark stripes called striations that are caused by powerful magnetic ...

The Thirty-Meter Telescope has actually been planned to be built on Mauna Kea in Hawaii since 2014. It was actually intended to be the largest optical telescope in the Northern Hemisphere.

The NSF’s Inouye Solar Telescope has captured ultra-fine magnetic striations, or “magnetic curtains,” on the sun’s surface, revealing structures just 20 kilometers wide.

Installed in the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory in California, Cona has captured the highest-resolution images to date of the sun’s corona.

Sharpest-ever view of the Sun’s surface reveals ultra-fine magnetic “stripes,” known as striations. Credit: NSF/NSO/AURA Scientists used the world’s largest solar telescope to capture ...

In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar telescope on Maui and UH's Institute for Astronomy.

China has completed its first overseas new-generation radio telescope in northern Thailand, bolstering a global scientific network that monitors deep space signals and tracks subtle shifts in the ...

NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captures sharpest-ever view of the solar surface to reveal our finest look at narrow magnetic stripe-like features known as striations Maui, Hawai‘i; June 3 ...