Researchers in Australia are working on a way to lower the cost of producing solar thermal energy by as much as 40% with the help of shatterproof rear-view mirrors originally designed for cars. That ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Researchers from the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) have developed a new kind of ultrathin solar cell. This breakthrough, the team explains, could open the door to future ...

An ambitious proposal by US startup Reflect Orbital has astronomers and environmentalists deeply concerned. The California-based company plans to deploy a massive constellation of satellites designed ...

A new research paper in the Acta Astronautica journal describes a constellation of mirror satellites to increase the power at the large solar farms on Earth. Among all cases, the paper found SSO (sun ...