NEW ORLEANS — Solar sails that allow satellites to glide on the light from the sun could soon become a reality. The ...

Here's what to know about NASA's rocket experiment, and how to tune in to see it unfold in real time. Lawsuit over eclipse: New York inmates say a prison lockdown for solar eclipse violates ...

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18). An Electron vehicle carrying the first "Gen-3" satellite for the geospatial intelligence ...

The three rockets will collect data to help scientists understand how solar eclipses impact our atmosphere. Understanding the effect of solar eclipses on the ionosphere The effects of solar ...

Each rocket is equipped with instruments that will take measurements of collisions between electrons coming from solar flares and electrons in Earth’s magnetosphere. A second mission will fire ...

Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this ...

However, this will not be an examination of what happens during a total solar eclipse. NASA will not be firing rockets into the moon’s darkest umbral shadow, only its lighter outer penumbra.

The solar power station will collect energy from the sun through its components lofted to a geostationary orbit above Earth ...

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...

While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

Lonestar Data Holdings is reaching for the moon in its quest to place the first physical data center on the lunar landscape.

Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a "Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth". The solar farm, which would be launched into ...