Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sierra Space, the company behind the in-development Dream Chaser spaceplane, announced a technology center expansion that will ...

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 ...

Space-based solar power represents a transformative shift in renewable energy, capturing sunlight in orbit and transmitting electricity to Earth continuously. Orbiting photovoltaic arrays receive ...

Just weeks after Sierra Space Corp. publicly launched operations at a manufacturing facility in Centennial, the aerospace company says it is opening another plant in Broomfield, this factory ...

A future where your lights, phone, and even entire cities are powered by sunlight collected in orbit may not be far-fetched. A new study published in Joule00255-7) suggests that Europe could one day ...

China is racing to turn a long imagined science fiction concept into hardware: a gigawatt scale solar power plant in orbit that would beam electricity back to Earth. The project would rely on a vast ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. Over the past decade, solar power has become the cheapest way to produce electricity. But its biggest challenge is that sometimes ...

A King’s College London study found that space-based solar power could cut Europe’s land-based renewable needs by 80% by 2050. Japan and the U.S. are testing early prototypes that beam solar energy ...

ATLANTA — A mission to the International Space Station in October will include new solar cells developed by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers. The Aegis Aerospace MISSE-21 mission, expected ...