On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various techniques to concentrate the sun's energy as a heat source. The heat is then used to boil water to drive a steam turbine that ...

By 2050, over 5 billion people — probably more than half the planet’s population — will be exposed to at least a month of health-threatening extreme heat when outdoors in the sun ...

It will be the fastest a human-made object has ever traveled, putting us closer than ever to the source of life on Earth.

The big question is whether the NASA probe will endure the sun’s intense heat ... the probe faces brutal heat and radiation to provide humanity with unprecedented observations, visiting the ...