Wireless power beaming has quietly crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction, with a U.S. space-focused solar ...

Solar power has become an important part of our civilization, especially in recent years, and it is presently crucial to our existence. Solar panel farms spread far and wide across the planet, on ...

In a scene depicted in the 1941 science fiction novel *Reason* by Isaac Asimov, two humans and a robot (QT-1) are working to ...

The Japanese technology company is offering three types of space-grade compound solar cell designs for satellites and spacecraft.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wants an AI chip "somewhere in space" in 2027. "Maybe we'll meet a Tesla Roadster," he quipped.

The conversation around energy is changing fast. With growing concerns about energy security, climate targets, and the increasing pressure to meet rising global energy demand, solutions that were once ...

The Beyond Earth Institute (BEI) unveiled “Catching the Sun: A National Strategy for Space Solar Power,” a new report on Space Solar Power (SSP) today. SSP uses solar panels in space to collect power ...

A future where your lights, phone, and even entire cities are powered by sunlight collected in orbit may not be far-fetched. A new study published in Joule00255-7) suggests that Europe could one day ...

Space explorations cannot rely on solar power alone. Especially when it comes to the far reaches of our solar system, the Sun’s rays become so diminished that solar panels are highly impractical. The ...

Beaming solar energy from space is not new; telecommunications satellites have been sending microwave signals generated by solar power back to Earth since the 1960s. But sending useful amounts of ...