The successful test is a proof-of-concept for Overview Energy's plans to deliver solar energy to Earth from satellites. The Northern Virginia startup hopes to conduct orbital ...

This test flight, conducted by the Ashburn, Virginia-based startup Overview Energy, marks a major victory in the quest for ...

Traditional solar fails in the windswept north. Two Swedish inventors are betting on aerodynamic resilience to solve the ...

As solar energy continues to expand across commercial and industrial rooftops, understanding their fire behaviour has become ...

NASA’s new solar engine powers the Gateway space station, advancing Artemis missions and deep space exploration.

NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

Pilot programs are already underway to test how crops and solar panels can coexist outside of controlled scientific ...

China is racing to turn a long imagined science fiction concept into hardware: a gigawatt scale solar power plant in orbit ...

Solar power has quietly pulled ahead of coal and gas in Germany’s electricity mix, even though the country is better known ...

Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., data centers burn through more than 4% of total annual energy consumption, says ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

A council’s policy that solar farms shouldn’t be built on arable land will get its first test with informal hearings on two ...