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The age of the solar sail is arriving sooner than expected

NASA has launched the latest attempt to test solar sail propulsion technology.  The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), consisting of a…

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How could we make a solar eclipse happen every day?

Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping…

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Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA

Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded a rarely seen event—four nearly-simultaneous flare eruptions involving three separate sunspots,…

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Positive perceptions of solar projects

As solar energy development accelerates, how do Americans actually feel about those large scale solar, or LSS, farms they see…

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NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube

NASA hitched a ride aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron Launcher in New Zealand yesterday evening, and is preparing to test a…

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Business

Biden expected to remove tariff exemption for bifacial solar panel imports – Reuters

bombermoon/iStock via Getty Images The Biden administration is expected to reverse a two-year-old trade exemption that has allowed imports of…

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Politics

Biden administration cuts costs for wind and solar energy on public lands

The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a rule that cuts costs for developing solar and wind energy on public lands. …

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US experienced staggering growth in solar and wind power over the last decade

This article was originally featured on Grist. When you live far from the sprawling fields befitting utility-scale solar and wind…

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What Science News saw during the solar eclipse

On Monday, North America experienced the last major eclipse that will cross over the continent for the next 20 years.…

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Polar forests may have just solved a solar storm mystery

The strongest solar flare in recorded history burst into Earth’s atmosphere in 1859, bathing both hemispheres in brilliantly colorful aurorae…

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