TVLine Items: ABC Recasts Women, Solar Opposites Return Date and More

Tonya Pinkins is one of ABC’s Women of the Movement: The All My Children vet and Tony Award winner will replace Niecy Nash in the Alphabet network’s limited series about Mamie Till-Mobley’s (Adrienne Warren) quest to get justice for her son Emmett Till after his murder in Mississippi. Per our sister site Deadline, Pinkins will […]

Saxo Bank's crazy predictions: Apple buying Tesla, Netflix stock crashing & solar flair causes chaos

Danish Saxo Bank traditionally publishes its annual list of “outrageous predictions” that may really shake up the world if the listed events ever happen. However, this year’s forecast doesn’t seem so fantastic. Most of the events, included in the annual report published by the Copenhagen-based financial institution, are featuring so-called black swans – events that […]

Ultima Thule: NASA probe will reach tiny world at edge of solar system on New Year’s Day

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to go where no probe has ever gone before this New Year’s Day, when it beams back data from a tiny world that sits more than six billion kilometers away at the edge of the solar system. The mysterious object the craft will be exploring is officially known as […]

‘Nobody looked at this before’: Parker solar probe shares first up-close look of the sun (PHOTO)

A clear image of plasma flowing from the sun taken by the Parker Solar Probe during its rendezvous with the center of our Solar System has amazed NASA scientists who now expect more treasures from the robotic spacecraft mission. While the solar approach of the probe took place on November 8, NASA only recently received […]

Floating solar is more than panels on a platform—it’s hydroelectric’s symbiont

Enlarge / A view of the new floating solar farm being grid connected on Godley Reservoir in Hyde, on February 10, 2016 in Manchester, England. (credit: Ashley Cooper / Barcroft Media / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) A total of 1.1 gigawatts (GW) of solar have been installed around the world as of September, according […]

Mysterious interstellar asteroid could be a solar sail from wrecked alien probe, astronomers say

Interstellar mystery rock Oumuamua might have been part of an alien reconnaissance mission, according to two Harvard Smithsonian astronomers who saw in the strange object signs it could be a light-driven probe. As the strange rock moved out of our solar system last September, it sped up instead of slowing down as would be expected. […]

Five solar roof shingles that aren’t from Tesla

Enlarge (credit: CertainTeed) In November 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gathered a collection of investors, fans, and journalists at the Universal Studios backlot in Los Angeles, California, and revealed his vision of a “solar roof”—that is, tiles with solar cells integrated into them so that they look just like regular roofing tiles, except they produce […]

Colliding stars or alien solar sails? Detection rate of mysterious space signals doubles

The detection of incredibly powerful signals from deep in space has increased dramatically and the mysterious radio waves are now closer and brighter than ever before. The phenomena, known as ‘fast radio bursts’, have puzzled scientists since their discovery more than a decade ago and now Australian researchers have announced, in a study published in […]