Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

In a solar industry racing to keep up with rising demand and increasingly complex supply chains, one company is offering a ...

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied ...

In passing the Trump administration’s flagship domestic policy and spending bill, Congress bought NASA’s Artemis program some time. But with little chance of a new budget in place before the fiscal ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

The new federal law favors energy technologies that are already profitable and increase global warming over cleaner ...

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Nano technology is making waves in the clean-tech space—and could give the U.S. a rare lead over China in photovoltaic ...

Space exploration represents one of humanity’s greatest achievements,but there’s one major obstacle: power. Every spacecraft needs a constant supply of electricity to operate instruments, support life ...

Triple junction solar cells based on InGaP/GaAs/Ge are the baseline for the space application. This paper reports the achievement in terms of development, characterization and in-flight experience for ...

NASA contracted space technology firm Maxar to build the lunar Gateway station’s power and propulsion element. Maxar, in turn ...

The U.S. company held the first test deployment of its solar arrays designed to power solar-electric propulsion systems for ...