Solar water heaters help homes cut energy bills by using sunlight instead of electricity. The system offers steady heating, ...

Scientists are learning how to turn the chill of outer space into a quiet source of electricity, using the night sky itself as a heat sink. By carefully managing how surfaces shed heat after dark, ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a startup that’s industrializing big satellite manufacturing, transparent ...

How Arizona’s Mesquite Solar complex became one of the nation’s largest solar sites and what its growth reveals about the ...

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the sun. The ...

Overview Energy has proven its solar power beaming satellite system works in motion, which it claims is a world first for high-power wireless energy transmission. The company is targeting megawatt ...

Overview Energy's new space-based solar power concept leverages existing solar farm infrastructure to harvest sunlight 24/7.

One of the difficulties of geoengineering is that in theory a single entity, like a startup company, could make decisions ...

A solar-powered ‘Galactic Brain’ is supposed to side-step energy constraints new data centers face on Earth.

Schott introduced Solar Glass exos, a new cover glass developed with AZUR Space for next-generation satellite solar cells with ESA and DLR support ...

UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.

Think of solar greenhouse heaters as a way to supplement existing heating systems. They're out there, but some assembly may be required.