Earlier this year, NASA loaded a microwave-sized device packed with a four-piece, 860-square-foot, ultra-thin solar sail aboard a rocket and launched it on April 23. That same day, the rocket ...

The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn't ...

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA ...

Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (OAEC), in partnership with RE-volv and Vital Energy Solutions, recently installed a 124-kW solar and 540-kWh battery ...

Heliogen Unveils Significant Achievement in Concentrating Solar Technology with Successful Demonstration of Advanced Control Software at Sandia Labs ...

Balcony solar promises to cut energy costs and grid reliance for renters and apartment-dwellers. I did a trial run at my home ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space. Each fake ...

European satellites launched to create artificial solar eclipses in a tech demo The $210 million mission, dubbed Proba-3, is aiming for at least 1,000 hours of “on demand” totality during its ...

Before it met the 30,000-50,000 kelvin wall at the edge of our Solar System, Voyager 1 took its final images.