The stealthy startup plans to use a network of satellites to harvest sunlight and send it to Earth using infrared lasers.

Commercial spaceflight is booming and looks to go into full-on kaboom stage in the near future, sparking the need for an ever ...

Aetherflux has focused its efforts on space-based solar power, with the goal of "building an American power grid in space." ...

Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the rules of space weather forecasting, turning what used to be a hazy two-day ...

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 ...

Space-based solar power startup Aetherflux has thrown its hat into the emerging market for orbital data centers, joining SpaceX, Amazon and others exploring ways to move energy-hungry artificial ...

Google's Project Suncatcher is a proposal to launch an 81-satellite constellation into low Earth orbit. But it must contend ...

So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels You can't generate ...

Solar power has become an important part of our civilization, especially in recent years, and it is presently crucial to our existence. Solar panel farms spread far and wide across the planet, on ...

A solar sail is designed to capture the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight to propel a spacecraft to incredible speeds. The advantages are numerous: by acting like a sailing ship ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto created a model to observe how close a flyby star would have to be to pull a planet from our solar system out of its orbit. Future Publishing via Getty Imag A ...