Like nuclear fusion, the idea of space-based solar power has always seemed like a futuristic technology with an actual deployment into communities ever remaining a couple of decades away.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...