Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

Space-based computing offers easy access to solar power but presents its own environmental challenges To hear Silicon Valley ...

The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.

Mobility in space continually cements itself as important in this modern era of space exploration, with satellites like Starlink, Amazon's upcoming Project Kuiper, the International Space Station, and ...

Google is testing a new project that could harness the sun to power data centers in space. Google's own research shows that space-based data centers could avoid draining resources on Earth. SpaceX and ...

For decades, data centres have been the unseen factories of the digital age. They power our payments, our markets, our ...

"Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we currently can." Self-lofting devices propelled by sunlight have been tested for the first time in ...

NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver. On Sept. 21, while skywatchers on Earth were eagerly ...