Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system, according to a new ...

Some say that it takes a village to accomplish great goals, but when crossing oceans aboard the self-reliant xquisite sixty solar sail, you take the village with you. Courtesy Xquisite Yachts Those ...

NASA has launched the latest attempt to test solar sail propulsion technology. The ACS3’s solar sail is made of a reflective polymer and is held by a boom made of carbon fiber composite material.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's IMAP mission will give Earthlings a sort of early warning system when solar weather may affect satellites and global ...

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages ...