British energy company Space Solar announced it successfully tested an in-space assembly method for its upcoming satellites.

GOLETA, Calif. - Redwire in Goleta has completed a key solar component to power systems capable of orbiting the moon with ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

Flying 492 feet apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims ...

Launched late last year, the orbiting duo have churned out simulated solar eclipses since March while zooming tens of ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

While some of these problems are absent on the moon, lunar solar panels could face issues with UV sensitivity and susceptibility to thermal shock. “These are points we are still working on ...

Future lunar bases could run on solar panels forged from molten moon dust, turning the Moon’s surface into an energy source, thanks to a new research breakthrough. Scientists at the University ...

Lang’s team developed a technique to create glass for the solar cells out of the Moon’s loose surface debris, called “lunar regolith.” Since glass for solar cells represents the heaviest, bulkiest ...