NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the naked eye as it orbits Earth, and can be tracked with a helpful app. An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the ...

Of course, traditional wind sails could not handle the demand of today's shipping industry, but a new type of sail definitely ...

IFCA Grand Slam Fin Slalom World Championships, held in Hvide Sande, Denmark, made history with a world-first, all-in format ...

A cargo ship fitted with giant, rigid British-designed sails has set out on its maiden voyage. Shipping firm Cargill, which has chartered the vessel, hopes the technology will help the industry ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Nasa has unfurled a solar sail in space for the first ...

NASA / Aero Animation / Ben Schweighart Earlier this year, 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 ...

Don't worry, it's doing fine. On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election A giant solar sail recently unfurled by Nasa has been ...

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 ...

All four seasons of the fan-favorite Starz action-adventure series Black Sails officially dropped on Netflix on April 17 ...

A NASA spacecraft erected a large, foil solar sail in orbit around Earth last week, after a failed attempt days earlier. However, subsequent observations of the spacecraft show it is "tumbling or ...

As Kamala Harris made her way back to a rainy and thunderstruck Washington on Thursday night, she could have been forgiven had she found herself whistling the old Ray Charles staple about Georgia.