A pioneering start-up, Space Solar, has announced plans to build a massive solar power plant in space by 2030. This ...

Martin Soltau believes that a recent NASA report questioning the economics of space-based solar power was wide of the mark Keep on believing Could sunlight captured by solar cells in space be used to ...

Now, with SSPD-1's mission in space concluded, engineers on Earth are celebrating the testbed's successes and learning important lessons that will help chart the future of space solar power ...

The idea is not new. Space-based solar power has been a concept since the beginning of the Space Age and the list of companies hoping to bring it to life is long. All of them are promising ...

UK startup Space Solar has signed an agreement with Reykjavik Energy that could see Iceland become the first country to receive power beamed from a space-based solar power plant. The 30-MW ...

The bacteria could be grown in space, and lend their photosynthesizing talents to supplying power to the hundreds of ...

Nasa, the European Space Agency, and Japanese and Chinese space scientists have been running solar-observation missions for ...

Their approach is inspired by the way bacteria and other plants and organisms convert light energy into chemical energy - a ...

From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one million ...

The Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed to watch the sun for any ejections of plasma that may hit Earth and damage power grids.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution views of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views ...

Pakistan has grown its solar energy capacity by an astounding amount in a remarkably short space of time. The shock surge has ...