“Just as a sailboat uses the wind to push it through the water, solar sails use the pressure of sunlight to push them through space,” Johnson says. This seemingly impossible feat is, in ...

April 22 (UPI) --NASA is gearing up for a launch this week that will test a new way to navigate the solar system, using a large sail to catch the sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System ...

scan the icy blackness of space, and perhaps detect the glow of a dangerous asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Or a solar-sail spacecraft could be placed in orbit almost permanently above ...

Scientists are exploring the possibilities of antimatter propulsion as they try to achieve interstellar travel. While ...

After one or two months of prep in space, the microwave-sized craft will ... to adjust its own orbit by relying entirely on its solar sails. NASA has yet to announce when it will unfurl ACS3's ...

Since they can propel themselves with limitless energy, solar sail-powered satellites could hover over a specific part of the planet, essentially following any orbit they want. The ESA is looking ...

NASA's Sounding Rocket Program provided low-cost access to space for scientific research, technology development, and ...

Elevated solar power is a solar panel installation method that involves mounting solar panels on a structure above the ground ...