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Revolv Space is no longer just a satellite component supplier: its deal with Infinite Orbits pushes it directly into the in-orbit servicing market.
Mercuryâs polar ice may trace back to one large, slow asteroid impact that moved water into permanently shadowed cold traps.
A German consortium is pushing photovoltaics into the place where construction often loses them: the facade itself, without giving up form, safety or module-level performance.
The Sun launched an eruption that looked ready to throw a huge mass of plasma into space, but the magnetic system locked up and the material collapsed back to the surface.
NASAâs MAVEN has pulled fresh science from Marsâ thin atmosphere: a quiet stretch of data revealed how solar storms can leave an unexpected signature on a world without a strong magnetic field.
POLO back-junction solar cells are entering Europeâs PV manufacturing debate not as a lab curiosity, but as a potential answer to cost, efficiency and silver consumption.
Community solar in Illinois is not held back by a lack of sun or land, but by the grid-connection queue that can turn a project into a waiting game.
A solar panel on a truck roof is no longer just a demo photo: a Japanese test on 200 vehicles shows measurable fuel savings, but also a brutally practical lesson about shade.
BepiColombo now has a concrete Mercury arrival date: November 21, eleven months later than expected, but still within the window for the mission to do science.
Mars is not a spare Earth, but the nearest example of why a planetâs place in the habitable zone is not enough to prove habitability.
For Psyche, Mars was not the destination this time, but a precision test target for deep-space instruments.
A rolling Mars robot with small dandelion-like probes could help scout tunnels and voids without putting a full rover in danger.
Inlyte Energy is not selling an overnight miracle, but testing a stubborn energy thesis: data centers need longer-duration, cheaper and more materially grounded batteries than todayâs default package.
Solar-panel recycling is no longer just a matter of separating glass and metals, but a chemistry problem that can turn stubborn polymers into useful feedstocks.
Europe cannot speed up the energy transition if developers only learn after months of waiting that the local grid has no room for a connection.
Orbital data centers sound like the next logical layer of space infrastructure, but Redwireâs point is more physical: without serious power and thermal architecture, scalable computing in orbit does not happen.
NASAâs Psyche did not just take a striking picture at Mars; it borrowed the orbital energy it needs to reach asteroid 16 Psyche in 2029.
Americaâs battery race is no longer just a clean-energy story; it is about who can deliver firm power to a grid increasingly stressed by AI data centers.
Chinaâs Sun Chasing is no longer just a sketch of space-based solar power, but its beam still has to survive the jump to orbit.
NTU Singapore is pushing perovskite solar cells toward architectural glass, with devices reported to be about 50 times thinner than conventional silicon cells.
Vehicle-integrated photovoltaics are not just a styling layer for electric vehicles: according to a Fraunhofer ISE-led project, they could cover up to 80% of some vehicles' electricity needs in Southern Europe.
In the Atacama, where solar modules have nowhere to hide from irradiance, ALPACA is testing one of photovoltaicsâ key material swaps: less silver, more copper.
The University of Hohenheim is leading a three-year project that treats desert solar plants not only as power infrastructure, but as a possible active element in local climate formation.
Fraunhofer ISE reached 31.3% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency outdoors by pairing a four-junction CPV system with two PEM cells in series.
Tesla Solar Roof shows what happens when a design-led energy vision collides with construction logistics, service obligations, and a price most households cannot justify.
A machine-learning model using cloud type and cloud cover suggests some sudden solar drops can be predicted earlier, but not with equal confidence in every climate.
If solar PV gets cheap enough, CO2 stops being just a waste gas and becomes feedstock for industrial materials that can lock carbon away for good.
Nevada told 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents that 75% of their electricity supply is being redirected to data centers, forcing some households to look for their own power source.
The University of Virginia has demonstrated a laser method that removes a solar panel backsheet without damaging the glass or silicon wafers, at an estimated cost of $0.22 per module.
Star Catcher Industries raised $65 million to validate an orbital grid that would send power to satellites by laser.
Huazhong University researchers used laser pulses to smooth perovskite films, boosting tandem cell efficiency to 29.8%.
Brazilian researchers simulated a hybrid tidal-PV farm for the estuarine BoqueirĂŁo Channel in MaranhĂŁo.
Cowboy Space raised $275 million for rockets whose upper stages would serve as orbital data centers.
BloombergNEF estimates that global energy storage added 112 GW of capacity in 2025.
The ESA-JAXA agreement on Ramses turns Apophis' rare 2029 Earth flyby from an astronomical spectacle into a tightly planned science and planetary-defense campaign.
The total solar eclipses of August 12, 2026, and August 2, 2027, are not just two calendar dates, but two very different logistical and astronomical choices.
Venus may not be as efficient at erasing spacecraft hardware as decades of assumptions suggested.
PNNL researchers introduced an electrolyte for more stable operation of high-voltage sodium-ion batteries.
STORIE is a small but important space-weather mission: it measures energetic neutral atoms to separate solar and terrestrial contributions to Earth's ring current.
Fortum has started large heat pumps that will recover excess heat from Microsoft's data centers in Finland.
Space-based solar power is being studied again for remote military bases, where fuel logistics and grid resilience have direct operational value.
A thin envelope around a trans-Neptunian object forces a rethink of where atmospheres can survive.
California's Nexus pilot shows canal-top solar can cut evaporation by 70 percent and algae growth by 85 percent.
China Datangâs 500 MW solar farm in Ningxia is now supplying power directly to data centers, marking a milestone in renewable energy integration.
The University of Queensland produced lead-free indoor perovskite solar cells with 16.36 percent efficiency.
ISTA researchers argue perovskite disorder is not a defect but a source of useful internal fields.
A UNSW-led team showed that a standalone PV-electrolyzer can ride through sudden irradiance drops and keep making hydrogen without battery storage, with efficiency reaching 97.12%.
Western University recorded a 38% tomato-yield gain under 69%-transparent crystalline silicon modules in a 19-week test.
Vietnamese researchers lowered small PV module temperatures by up to 14 C using hydrogel-coated paper and water.
The 100 MW plant in Inner Mongolia caused a mean air temperature rise of 0.8°C relative to a reference site over two years.
Nankai University reported a silver-free heterojunction solar cell reaching 25.2% efficiency after Ar/H2 plasma treatment of the ITO interface.
Nankai University reported a silver-free heterojunction solar cell reaching 25.2% efficiency after Ar/H2 plasma treatment of the ITO interface.
A new California Senate bill would let home battery owners earn cash by selling spare power.
South Australia is increasingly paying users to consume surplus electricity rather than trying to suppress it out of the grid.
The new method tries to replace part of costly urban modeling with one panoramic image and a neural estimate.
Uranusâs faint outer rings show patterns that may have been shaped by the gravity of small moons not yet directly observed.
Researchers are utilizing unique data sources to better understand space weather patterns.
Researchers at Fraunhofer IKTS and Ege University have developed an ultrasonic cavitation process that cleanly separates glass, EVA film, and silicon cells from end-of-life photovoltaic modules.
TOPCon solar cells just got a laser-powered tune-up that could let them punch above their weight classâwithout changing the factory blueprint.
Experts from UK-based consultancy Ricardo, part of the WSP Group, authored a column for PV magazine regarding plug-in solar panels.
Khagendra Katuwalâs peer-reviewed paper in *Solar Physics* traces fast solar winds to coronal holes with enough precision to reduce satellite disruption forecasts by hours.
Commercial silicon solar modules now deliver nearly triple the specific power of two decades ago, but that figure conceals a precise engineering war against the panel's own construction.
Researchers found that Earth formed from material originating within Jupiter's orbit.
Artemis 2 astronauts witnessed the eclipse during their historic lunar flyby, capturing a rare moment in spaceflight history.
Australian scientists claim TOPCon cells are reducing the open-circuit voltage gap with heterojunction cells to under 10 mV.
Semi-transparent silicon PV greenhouses grew tomatoes 25% heavier while generating 726.8 kWhâoutperforming cadmium telluride and shaded controls in a Spanish study.
Maximo robots have installed 100 megawatts of solar capacity in California, marking a significant milestone in the use of robotics for solar panel installation.
Webbâs MIRI instrument resolved dust gaps in two protoplanetary disks with widths matching Jupiter-mass protoplanets, challenging core accretion modelsâ predicted timelines.
Terabase Energy used Terafab V2 to install 40 MW of solar panels in the field, and now it is targeting 1 GW in 10 weeks with mobile robotic factories.
Two deep learning models now promise to detect SCADA cyber threats with hybrid precisionâyet their creators wonât name the datasets or deployment tests.
Japanese researchers have demonstrated a molybdenum-based spin-flip emitter that captures dark triplet excitons from tetracene dimers and converts them into usable near-infrared emission.
Kyushu Universityâs new study reveals protostellar disks eject magnetic flux in violent burstsâeach âsneezeâ sculpting gas rings larger than 20 solar systems.
Cornellâs lowered-first-row solar panel design cuts shelter-zone wind speeds by 86%âoutperforming decades-old tree windbreaks without sacrificing airflow for crops.
New rules could add ÂŁ50â100m in annual compliance costs for UK energy providers, per industry estimates.
Tongweiâs new HBC solar cells ditch front-side metal grids entirely, a move that could cut shading losses by 5%âif factories can stabilize a three-layer tech stack.
NASAâs Psyche spacecraft will arrive at the metal asteroid in 2029 to study its giant craters, potential remnants of a lost protoplanet.
NASAâs Psyche spacecraft will arrive at the metal asteroid in 2029 to study its giant craters, potential remnants of a lost protoplanet.
Nulite's new system boasts coefficients of performance often exceeding 4â5, indicating high efficiency.
Australia isnât just planning to power itself with solarâitâs eyeing a role as the worldâs renewable battery.
NASAâs Artemis Base Camp will house four astronauts for up to 60 days, doubling Apollo mission durations.
Swansea Universityâs data shows perovskite cells retain 95% efficiency when made outside cleanrooms, cutting capital costs by up to 80%.
Smart meters pose a 'massive' cybersecurity risk to millions of homes.
Chinaâs first commercial order for perovskite-silicon tandem solar modules isnât just a milestoneâitâs a stress test.
Chinese researchers' energy tower heat pumps outperform gas boilers on efficiency and cost.
Solar panel owners are paying to clean their modulesâand in some cases, they're paying to break them.
Ghana's 200 MW battery storage plan may boost renewables, but deployment is key.
JAXAâs Hayabusa2 mission just delivered the third independent confirmation of DNAâs raw materials in asteroidsâthis time with isotopic ratios that rule out Earth contamination.
Terabase Energy says Terafab V2 has finished field testing and is ready for commercial delivery.
A 7-ton meteorite, racing at 46,000 mph, exploded over Ohio this weekâoffering scientists a rare chance to study primordial solar system relics.
With Gravitas, K2 Space is trying to prove that orbital compute first has to answer a blunt question: whether there is enough power for serious work.
Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Madrid's Institute of Solar Energy have developed ultra-thin silicon cells that can be transferred onto virtually any surface using a hot-pick-up technique.
EPFL and CSEM researchers cracked 30.02% efficiency by tweaking perovskite crystal growth and adding light-trapping nanoparticlesâno vaporware, just .
A microbe from NASA clean rooms is not a Martian discovery. It is an Earthbound warning about how hard it is to protect the search for life.
German photovoltaic systems degrade at just 0.52â0.61% annuallyâroughly half previous estimatesâaccording to a 16-year study analyzing 1.25 million installations.
Solar wind carves the Moon's magnetic scarsâiron-rich crustal rocks deflecting particles form localized shields, study reveals.
DAS Solarâs latest TOPCon cells hit 25.5% efficiency after cracking the code on passivating pinholesâno new materials, just a process tweak.
Scientists confirmed Monday that samples from asteroid Ryugu contain all five nucleobasesâthe fundamental building blocks of DNA and RNA.
CyberSentry leverages deep learning to achieve a 99.5% detection accuracy rate for attacks on critical infrastructure networks.
CIEMATâs new solar simulator hits 0.4% precision in 500ms pulsesâcan labs afford the upgrade?
Japan is tightening agrivoltaic rules after yield data showed the dual-use boom was outpacing field reality.
New modeling of Sun-like stars suggests magnetic fields can block a long-predicted reversal in their rotation pattern.
Antimony is not the headline trick in this solar story; it is a candidate for reducing variation inside the silicon wafers that carry the economics of a cell.
Astronomers have for the first time captured the birth of a magnetar during a supernova, providing direct evidence that these hypermagnetized objects power some of the universe's most luminous explosions.
The DART spacecraftâs collision with Dimorphos changed the entire binary systemâs orbital speed by just 11.7 microns per second, a barely perceptible nudge with planetary-scale consequences.
Peer-reviewed data now confirms NASAâs DART mission altered Dimorphosâs orbit by 33 minutesâvalidating kinetic impact as a viable planetary defense strategy.
Basecamp Researchâs AI-driven partnership will sequence 100 million genomesâenough to rewrite the known boundaries of genetic diversity by two orders of magnitude.
Independent tests confirm Donut Labâs battery operates at 100°Câa temperature that cripples conventional lithium cells, even as its pouch membrane fails under stress.
