They spend all day baking in the sun, but that doesn't mean solar panels capture all the light that hits them. Generally speaking, solar cells are capable of harnessing visible light for energy ...

An East Coast industrial plant had for months experienced a significant dropoff in energy production from its 36,000-square-foot solar field. The plant’s maintenance team had been unable to find any ...

Solar's had a pretty rough time breaking the ~40% efficiency level over the years, but Idaho National Laboratory researchers have apparently developed a nano-antenna array capable of collecting power ...

According to the researchers, the process is still harnessing the power of the Sun, whose radiative output warms up the Earth during the day. At night, this energy is radiated back out into the cold ...

The Panel on Optical and Infrared Observations from the Ground (OIR) will identify and suggest to the Astro2020 decadal survey committee a program of federal investment in round-based research ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A NASA advisory panel is recommending that the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission end in October as originally planned instead of continuing to search for comets, ...