The proton sharks showed up on a Friday. In a routine data calibration meeting for NASA's Parker Solar Probe in 2020, a small ...

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SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally ...

A new study suggests that space-based solar panels could be the key to a clean energy future for Europe. Led by King’s College London, it suggests that harvesting solar power from space could ...

The fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a ...

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Ascent Solar Technologies announced its collaboration with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Glenn Research Center to enhance capabilities for receiving beamed power using its CIGS ...

Since the 1960s, astronomers have wondered how the Sun’s supersonic “solar wind,” a stream of energetic particles that flows out into the solar system, continues to receive energy once it leaves ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe dove extremely close to the solar surface on Dec. 24. The spacecraft should get nearer to the sun than any other human-made object in history — within 3.86 million ...

Japan is moving closer to one of the world’s most futuristic energy experiments — generating solar power in space and ...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has revealed the first evidence of the Zwan-Wolf effect on Mars, challenging long-standing ...