Piccard never intended the vehicle for commercial use, but instead envisioned it as a way to raise awareness for sustainable energy by building the first solar-powered plane capable of ...

New study assesses where light-powered spacecraft propulsion technology currently stands.

A multidisciplinary team from the California Institute of Technology is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for testing a satellite that proves it’s possible to collect solar energy in space and ...

Sun-Ways has estimated that panels across Switzerland’s roughly 5,000 kilometers of railway could produce about one ...

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...

Coal is by far the most polluting fuel that we use. It produces the most carbon emissions per unit of energy, and impurities in the coal produce a lot of sulfur dioxide aerosols, as well as nitrous ...

Solar farms need space. Lots of it. Build them on land, and you're competing with farms, forests, and wildlife. So Germany ...

The capacity of solar panels fitted on campervans and off-grid vans is normally expected to be lower compared to what is ...

Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this space-based solar array never faces nighttime, clouds, or atmospheric ...

The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to ...

Scientists spotted patterns hours before a major solar flare, a discovery that could help forecast dangerous eruptions.