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 ...

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 ...

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 ...