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An extra solar system planet once orbited next to Earth — and it may be the reason we have a moon

An extra solar system planet once orbited next to Earth — and it may be the reason we have a moon

An illustration of the ‘giant impact’ between Earth and the proto-planet Theia. New research indicated the two may have been extremely close neighbors before their unfortunate falling out. (Image credit: MPS / Mark A. Garlick) The catastrophic collision that forged the moon, and marked one of the most consequential events in Earth’s early history, may

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AOPE Rector Commissions Solar Power Project Funded By Yinka Afonja

AOPE Rector Commissions Solar Power Project Funded By Yinka Afonja

The Ag. Rector of Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa, Dr. Gbade Akinteye today commissioned a newly installed solar energy system at its Central Administrative Building, funded through a donation received from Prince ‘Yinka Afonja, MD/CEO of Ace Supermarket. The installation marks the first phase of the ₦10 million commitment he announced during the Institution’s second combined

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Africa’s Critical Minerals Poised to Power Global Green Energy Transition

Africa’s Critical Minerals Poised to Power Global Green Energy Transition

Africa, Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Natural Resources, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Open-pit mine Archives. Credit: Africa Renewal, United Nations UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1 2025 (IPS) – Although Africa holds more than 30 per cent of the world’s critical green minerals—including cobalt, lithium, manganese, and rare earth elements vital

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European Patent Office revokes JA Solar multi-busbar PV patent in ‘good news’ for EU manufacturers

European Patent Office revokes JA Solar multi-busbar PV patent in ‘good news’ for EU manufacturers

The patent was originally owned by Korean LG Electronics and later acquired by Chinese solar manufacturing giant JA Solar. Before being revoked, it sought to protect: Solar cells with six or more busbars, The use of solder-coated round wires as interconnection leads, The use of expanded pad sections to solder those wires to the busbars. The EPO revoked the patent

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Japan pilots low-weight solar panels, perovskite windows for buildings

Japan pilots low-weight solar panels, perovskite windows for buildings

Mitsui Home and Tokyo Gas have revealed plans to deploy Japan’s first combined on-site and virtual solar power purchase agreement (PPA), cutting factory emissions and maximizing rooftop energy use. November 28, 2025 Brian Publicover Image: Asanagi, Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 Mitsui Home and Tokyo Gas have agreed to deploy Japan’s first combined on-site and virtual

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Laser annealing enables rapid, degradation-free ambient processing of perovskite solar modules | Science

Laser annealing enables rapid, degradation-free ambient processing of perovskite solar modules | Science

Unlike small-area perovskite films produced by spin coating, which undergo prolonged thermal annealing in inert atmosphere for full crystallization, printable perovskite photovoltaics face a critical trade-off between crystal growth quality and ambient … https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx9650

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CPUC urged to hold PG&E and SCE ‘to account’ for solar interconnection delays

CPUC urged to hold PG&E and SCE ‘to account’ for solar interconnection delays

Californians installing solar or energy storage capacity need approval from their utility before they can interconnect with the grid. The CPUC has introduced mandatory timeframes for those approvals and a rule that utilities meet those timeframes 95% of the time, but the open letter claims that PG&E and SCE miss some of their deadlines “as

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Total Darkness For 6 Minutes! Longest Solar Eclipse Of The 21st Century Is Coming

Total Darkness For 6 Minutes! Longest Solar Eclipse Of The 21st Century Is Coming

Last Updated: November 26, 2025, 11:45 IST A rare cosmic event will plunge parts of the Earth into six minutes of darkness, with temperatures dropping and stars emerging in daylight, a sight unseen in a century Rapid Read Summarized by AI. + On August 2, 2027, a rare total solar eclipse will darken parts of

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Flight school ‘alarmed by serious safety hazards posed’ by proposed solar farm

Flight school ‘alarmed by serious safety hazards posed’ by proposed solar farm

A flight school used by British Airways says it is ‘alarmed by the serious flight safety hazards’ posed by a huge proposed solar farm in Oxfordshire. If approved, Botley West would be one of Europe’s largest solar farms and is expected to generate 840 megawatts of renewable electricity – enough to power around 330,000 homes,

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