In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Journalists gather around a rehearsal model of the sample return capsule on the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at Dugway Proving Grounds on Thursday, July 20, 2023. NASA and military personnel have been using ...

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 towers, ...

BORON, Calif. — A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make way for a ...

Scientists have used a CPLEX-based MIP model and tested it on a section of the 10 MW Masdar City Solar Photovoltaic Plant. In their simulation, they assume the use of two robotic cleaners to operate ...

Large solar farms in the deserts of China are not only producing vast amounts of electricity but also reshaping the ecosystems beneath them, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research. A ...

Hybrid project pairs a 100 MW linear Fresnel concentrated solar power (CSP) with a 900 MW PV facility, delivering 24-hour ...