Solar power satellite (SPS) advocates have been dreaming of using space resources to build massive constructions for decades.

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Beijing team finds that potential electrical discharges, though brief, could induce abnormal currents in spacecraft systems.

A Luma Solar roofing system with integrated PV is now a key feature of a sustainable building on the Yale University campus.

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...

Nearly five years after the construction of the updated Capitola Branch Library, solar panels and a battery energy storage ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...