The Gateway, NASA’s upcoming lunar space station, is one step closer to reality as engineers have successfully powered on its solar electric propulsion system, a spacecraft engine designed to orbit ...

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that one trip around the Sun takes more than 11,000 years. For much of that time ...

CARMANAH TECHNOLOGIES CORP. introduced five models of a new product line, EverGEN solar engines, ranging from 10 to 80 watts in power. The solar engines are designed for use where grid-supplied ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

But his crowning achievement came in 1876. Adams built a 24-foot concave mirror and had his London solar boiler shipped to Bombay. One morning, wearing dark glasses for safety, he turned the giant ...

Plants harvest solar energy via photosynthesis to maintain various biological processes, such as propagation and growth 1; the energy of the natural climate and meteorological phenomena (such as wind ...

When he wasn't designing warships, John Ericsson was dreaming up solar technology. The Swedish American inventor, credited with the screw propeller and the first ironclad vessel in the U.S. Navy, ...