But in the new paper, engineer and solar sail scholar Colin McInnes ... Maxwell laid out a long list of calculations (based on existing physics rather than observation) to show that Saturn ...

A ring or sphere could, apparently, be stable if surrounded by the right sizes and gravities of other stars.

Sailing onward, the probe carried out a ... a study by the U.S. National Academies titled "The Next Decade of Discovery in Solar and Space Physics: Exploring and Safeguarding Humanity's Home ...

Solar sails are spacecraft that actively use the minute pressure ... Quantum Navigation Research Center), Associate Professor Yatsu Yoichi (Department of Physics), Associate Professor Nakanishi Hiroki ...

The solar system is flooded with asteroids that ... Dawn Graninger is a researcher from Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab who works in planetary defense and was a co-investigator on the DART ...

Solar sails have been the subject of research and ... the former head of the Advanced Propulsion Physics Research Laboratory (NASA Eagleworks) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

A domestic think tank has developed a "solar sail" to power spacecraft using solar winds. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) on Feb. 13 said it developed and demonstrated the prototype of a ...

Solar power satellite (SPS) advocates have been dreaming of using space resources to build massive constructions for decades.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...