While this boat needs sunny conditions to power its motor, it's not limited by the need to refuel that reduces the range of ...

The successful test is a proof-of-concept for Overview Energy's plans to deliver solar energy to Earth from satellites. The Northern Virginia startup hopes to conduct orbital ...

A new study investigates the use of structural buckling as a control technique for solar sails. According to a pre-print paper on arXiv by Gulzhan Aldan and Igor Bargatin from the University of ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA app on a mobile device. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Canada making border ...

UNSW and Jolywood studied the thermal stability of laser-assisted fired TOPCon solar cells during module fabrication and high-temperature stress, identifying hydrogen-related defect dynamics as the ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Cruise lovers in Texas will soon have more to look forward to. Carnival Cruise Line announced new 2027–2028 itineraries on Wednesday, revealing that Carnival Miracle will sail from ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ...

Tens of millions of people were in the path of totality when the 2024 total solar eclipse passed over the eastern and central U.S., southeastern Canada and central Mexico last spring. In addition to ...

Lightsails are a highly promising spacecraft concept that has attracted interest in recent years due to its potential to travel at near-relativistic speeds. Such speeds, which current conventional ...

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages ...