The planets of the solar system orbit the sun in a complex and ever-shifting ballet, which can see them appear as glorious ...

A solar sail is designed to capture the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight to propel a spacecraft to incredible speeds. The advantages are numerous: by acting like a sailing ship ...

A new study warns a powerful solar storm could cripple satellite mega-constellations within days, as crowded orbits, lost controls, and rising collision risks threaten to trigger a cascading space ...

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 ...

has tracked space solar power and wireless power transfer companies since 2018. There are 52 primarily commercial entries as of September 2023, which makes it one of the largest public lists. Survey ...

Ben Nowack, a 26-year-old inventor and former SpaceX employee, wants to send satellites with mirrors mounted on them into orbit to allow us to generate solar energy at night, Vice reports.

Researchers at the University of Toronto created a model to observe how close a flyby star would have to be to pull a planet from our solar system out of its orbit. Future Publishing via Getty Imag A ...

On March 14, 2022, GOES-T executed its final engine burn, placing the satellite in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles above Earth. Upon reaching this milestone, GOES-T was renamed GOES-18. GOES ...

Satellites are being pushed out of their orbits by the sun as space weather is set to get even more intense over the next few years. The solar activity caused Earth's atmosphere to heat up, increasing ...

( NewsNation) — SpaceX will be moving around 4,400 satellites to a lower orbit in 2026, according to a Starlink official.

Space-based solar power could provide round-the-clock access to renewable energy, sidestepping one of the technology's biggest limitations. Now the idea is going to get its first true test after a ...

An international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed the first known observance of a tidally locked super-Earth exoplanet. In their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, the ...