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

Photosynthesis efficiently captures and converts sunlight into something usable — so why not steal a trick from nature for ...

ESA's Proba-3 will be the first mission to create an artificial total solar eclipse by flying a pair of satellites 150 meters ...

India's space scientists are celebrating their "first significant results": their maiden solar-observation mission could help ...

Japan Space Systems (JSS) will operate aircraft equipped with solar panels flying 5-to-7 kilometers above sea level and beam back microwaves to the ground that will be turned into electricity. JSS is ...

This year, stargazers from Norway to Massachusetts got a chance to see the beautiful northern lights. But way above us, the ...

The LVSAT arrays, he said, would be part of a lunar infrastructure strategy that Lockheed Martin has proposed, which includes leveraging lunar ice resources and exploring nuclear fission for ...

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

The Solar Orbiter mission has captured the highest-resolution views of the sun’s surface to date, showcasing massive sunspots ...

The Sun, our life-sustaining star, is also a for midable force capable of unleashing immense energy bursts. CMEs, massive ...

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