Scientists have created mini-coronal loops to simulate banana-sized solar flares in the lab to investigate how massive explosions on the sun's surface launch energetic particles and X-rays into space.

US space tech and innovation giant Rocket Lab has unveiled STARRAY, a family of customizable, next-generation solar arrays designed to meet the diverse power needs of satellites operating in any ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today introduced the Company’s family of ...

A new solar panel reaches up to 865 W, setting a historic record in power and efficiency for large-scale solar projects.

Researchers were able to replicate how solar flares form by creating banana-sized loops of plasma in a lab. The results show that the mini flares are an excellent proxy for studying the real things.

According to an article published in Nature Astronomy, a research lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) managed to create its own solar flare that is small enough to fit inside a ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today announced it has been selected by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to ...

Spain's Enertis Applus has launched a new unit of its mobile laboratory in Australia after rollouts to Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Europe– markets where the company already operates mobile laboratories ...

A new Utility-Scale Solar report released by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, this month found that the United States installed a record amount of solar. Berkeley ...

A Massachusetts-based lab invites people in the path of the April 8 solar eclipse to contribute to a multisensory research project.It's part of a NASA-backed project to document the effects of ...

A team of chemists at UC Santa Barbara has developed a liquid compound that absorbs ultraviolet sunlight, locks that energy into its molecular bonds for months, and then releases it as heat on command ...

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