In early November, Google announced Project Suncatcher, a moonshot project that aims to create satellite constellations that ...

Like nuclear fusion, the idea of space-based solar power has always seemed like a futuristic technology with an actual deployment into communities ever remaining a couple of decades away. The concept ...

Space-based solar power is evolving, with NASA, Star Catcher, and Aetherflux testing new designs for wireless power beaming ...

Google's Sundar Pichai indicates the company sees orbiting data centers as a real solution, rather than merely a moonshot, to help address power-hungry AI systems.

The future of American leadership in space will hinge on one factor: the ability to generate high power on orbit and on the surface of celestial bodies such as the moon. From a physics standpoint, ...

(The Conversation) – The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it ...

Space-based solar power systems (or SBSPs) are different in that they collect energy in Earth orbit. There is no atmosphere or clouds, making this method much more efficient than on the ground. In ...

As a first-year student at the University of Virginia, Sarah Peacock thought she was gravitating toward finance and business – until her astronomy professor discovered a new ring around Saturn. “I ...

Data centers are a huge burden on natural resources. Some companies think the solution is to send them to space. Reading time 6 minutes The world runs on data. As humanity’s information gets ...