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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of Pluto after a 3-billion-mile journey powered by nuclear technology from the Energy Department.

The teams are set for this year's Solar Decathlon, which challenges students from around the world to design, build and operate highly energy efficient solar-powered houses.

Palmer Carlin helped create the wind industry. Read his fascinating story, the latest in our #LabSpotlight series.

We interviewed new Office of Indian Energy Director Chris Deschene about his life, goals and years of experience working on tribal energy development.

New Small Business Vouchers Pilot will connect clean energy innovators across the country with the top-notch scientists, engineers, and world-class facilities at Energy Department National Laboratories.

Each of our 17 National Labs wrote a profile for our Instagram. Explore them all here then test your memory against Secretary Moniz to see how many you can name in 60 seconds.

Water covers 71 percent of the planet -- so why isn't wave energy a bigger part of our clean energy strategy? New technology could make it competitive sooner than you think.

Rachel Woods-Robinson and Elizabeth Case check-in after another month of biking across the country to teach science, talk with teachers and encourage girls to study STEM.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve or SPR is an emergency stockpile of oil located in salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts. Learn more about the SPR, how it came to be and what it does in our latest timeline.

Join us all week for Stop One: Meet the National Labs, a virtual journey to see the people places and science of the National Labs.

Deputy Secretary Sherwood-Randall joins our Women @ Energy series -- which now has over 250 profiles of inspiring women at the Department of Energy.

Hyliion from Carnegie Mellon University won the 2015 National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition, setting the stage for next year's Cleantech University Prize.

As part of our series of STEM Mentoring Cafes, a group of 40 girls from the Tampa Public Housing Authority met with scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians at the Museum of Science and Industry on June 13, 2015.

The science and industry of biofuels is changing rapidly. See what’s new with the fuels of the future.

Newly launched Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation will work to lower the overall manufacturing costs of advanced composites by 50 percent.

How much do you know about solar power? Test your knowledge with our solar IQ quiz!

Meet Sally Dawson, an award-winning theoretical physicist seeking to better understand the Higgs boson particle and our latest #LabSpotlight.

During #SpaceWeek we covered the Department of Energy's space expertise, from nuclear-powered spacecraft to lightsabers used in Star Wars. (Really.) Here's what you missed.

The Department is hosting a Clean Energy Investment Summit at the White House to spur the development of new, clean-energy technologies.

A software fix released by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists has produced sharper images from the NASA Curiosity rover's ChemCam, which uses a laser and camera to hunt for traces of water on Mars.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument or DESI will help scientists uncover the mystery of dark energy by mapping the universe in three dimensions.

With space getting exceedingly crowded, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab are working on a system that could help prevent collisions in space.

Since the beginning of the space race, the Energy Department and its National Labs have been supplying the space power systems and instruments that make missions across our solar system, and the discoveries they uncover, possible.

Explore the history of nuclear power systems in U.S. space exploration -- from early satellites to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Calling all Star Wars fans! Chat with our experts about energy in the Star Wars universe, from lightsabers to landspeeders, on a Google+ Hangout at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, June 12, 2015.