Instead of absorbing energy from the sun to produce electricity, a new class of devices generates power by absorbing heat ...

Portal’s heat exchanger thruster, known as Flare, fires up during a test in a vacuum chamber. (Portal Space Systems Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems says it has successfully tested its ...

Is space-based solar power a costly, risky pipe dream? Or is it a viable way to combat climate change? Although beaming solar power from space to Earth could ultimately involve transmitting gigawatts, ...

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 ...

TROY, MI - In space, the sun is always shining. So why not put a solar farm up there? One Michigan startup is already on its way, aiming to take an idea featured in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction 80 ...

Researchers are making significant strides in solar panel technology, particularly with perovskites, which can boost efficiency when combined with silicon. Artificial intelligence is being utilized to ...

Google recently unveiled Project Suncatcher, a research "moonshot" aiming to build a data center in space. The tech giant ...

Researchers have successfully created solar cells from simulated moon dust that could fuel power. The cells the scientists developed should convert sunlight into energy efficiently and withstand ...

In an interview with Fox News over the weekend, Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussed the recently announced Project Suncatcher, which aims to find more efficient ways ...

A future where your lights, phone, and even entire cities are powered by sunlight collected in orbit may not be far-fetched. A new study published in Joule00255-7) suggests that Europe could one day ...

PowerBank has backed Orbit AI in first orbital cloud network combining compute, blockchain and solar power to serve data and ...