Soaring demand for electricity is leading some companies to not only think out of the box for a solution, but out of this ...

Solar power satellite (SPS) advocates have been dreaming of using space resources to build massive constructions for decades.

49.9 MW project, owned and led by Low Carbon, is Trinasolar’s first to combine modules, mounting structures and energy ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely ...

This isn’t science fiction—it’s space-based solar power (SBSP), a technology that ... Of course, funding the first SBSP plant is challenging. “The idea would be that for the first-of ...

Other nations are also exploring space-based solar power. The European Space Agency, the US, the UK, and Japan's JAXA are investigating solar satellite array technology. Live Science notes that ...