Space-based solar power has the potential to reduce Europe's need for land-based renewable energy by up to 80%—a potential game-changer for reaching net-zero by 2050.

Now, space-based solar power is being actively pursued by China, India, Japan, Russia, the US, and the UK, and according to a study by King’s College London, has the potential to play a game-changing ...

Scientists might have just worked out how to hear from aliens - Extraterrestrial life could be sending message to its ...

The Heliostat design, while in early development, uses autonomous reflectors to focus sunlight onto a concentrator. It could operate 99% of the year. This design is projected to outperform wind and ...

The "black moon," a rare phenomenon that occurs during a new moon phase of the lunar cycle, will occur this weekend. But don't get your hopes up too much, scientists say, because it will be ...

An unpublished NASA memo reportedly warns of a change in how the space agency awards contracts to build private space ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a kinetic impactor—a projectile intent on transferring its momentum to an asteroid ...

The tropical storm rapidly intensified into a category 5 over warm Atlantic water, causing heavy rains and strong winds on nearby coastal regions.

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft that looks like a miniature space shuttle back for a long-duration mission to space during a ...

The X-37B has launched atop multiple rockets from different providers. The spaceplane’s first four flights, starting in 2010, were launched atop an Atlas V 501, configured with a five-meter fairing ...

Two colossal plasma fountains tore away from the sun in a breathtaking double blast, one of the most impressive eruptions ...

SpaceX could soon launch its third Falcon 9 rocket of the month from California, but it may be hard to see this time soaring over Arizona.