From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

The Ivanpah solar plant, once a beacon of cutting-edge technology, is closing due to the rapid advancement and cost reduction ...

This composite image of the Sun combines high-energy X-ray data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). On December 6, 2010, a lengthy solar filament, which had been winding around ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more ...

While that’s a welcome development, one question that’s being asked about Stargate is where the energy to power its lofty AI infrastructure will come from. Nuclear and solar energy ...

and how the corona transforms into solar wind. As a bonus, the mission will take 3D pictures of a solar eclipse, from space. Learning More About the Sun's Surface The system that will make these ...

When this plant opened near the California-Nevada border in early 2014, it was pitched as the future of solar power. Just over a decade later, it’s closing. The plant’s co-owner NRG Energy ...