The appeal is straightforward. Solar panels on Earth depend on weather. They shut down at night, sulk under clouds, and fade ...

“And, because it’s in space, the solar radiation is higher than on the Earth's surface,” Dr He explained ... Europe’s ...

A future where your lights, phone, and even entire cities are powered by sunlight collected in orbit may not be far-fetched.

How extreme will weather events become in the second half of the 21st century? This is what a recent study published in Earth’s Future hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Space-based solar panels could enable solar power to be harvested continuously instead of only when sunlight reaches Earth, ...

It could also be efficient enough, as the study shows that this type of SBSP generation could reduce the cost of the whole ...

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As the ozone layer recovers, it’s also intensifying global warming. Researchers predict that by 2050, ozone will rank just ...

The world population is expected to climb to 9.7 billion in 2050 from 7.7 billion today, with the population of sub-Saharan Africa doubling, a United Nations report released Monday said.