NASA’s ACS3 mission shows the space agency’s commitment to solar sail technology. What does the future of solar sails look ...

It seems crazy, but light actually exerts a physical force on objects. It could power a new generation of spacecraft for deep ...

Counterintuitively, solar sails may be best suited for carrying spacecraft toward the Sun. Credit: NASA Sailing across the known universe on beams of light is about as romantic as the space ...

NASA loaded a microwave-sized device packed with a four-piece, 860-square-foot, ultra-thin solar sail aboard a rocket and launched it on April 23. That same day, the rocket delivered the object ...

NASA's app allows skygazers to track sightings of the solar sail from their location, providing the direction of the sky it will be visible, its celestial altitude, and the duration of each sighting.

On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft will conduct a detailed study of the moon, looking for ...

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo. On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a ...

This artist’s concept shows the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft sailing in space using the energy of the Sun. © NASA/Aero Animation/Ben Schweighart ...

NASA has harnessed the energy of the Sun to power spacecraft and drive scientific discovery across our solar system. Today, NASA continues to advance solar panel technology and test new innovations.

Four months after it blasted off into space, Nasa's solar spacecraft has spread its sails - and now you can spot it from Earth! The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (or ACS3 for short ...