Flying over Pennsylvania, the small airplane wirelessly beamed power down to receivers on the ground. The flight test marked ...

A new study assesses the risk of space-based solar power satellites damaging nearby orbital space infrastructure with ...

In general, solar PV deposited on glass is significantly more efficient than thin film, but this is the price you pay for off-world deployments. Paul Warley, CEO of Colorado-based Ascent Solar, told ...

On a blustery November day in 2025, a Cessna turboprop fought its way through the skies over Pennsylvania. The conditions ...

Solar power has become an important part of our civilization, especially in recent years, and it is presently crucial to our existence. Solar panel farms spread far and wide across the planet, on ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has provided crucial data to answer the decades-long question of where the energy comes from to heat and accelerate the solar wind. Working in tandem with NASA's Parker ...

A solar conjunction occurs as Venus' orbit carries it into alignment with the sun and Earth. Venus will align with the sun ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...