Solar farms have a significant clean water footprint. But new technologies could help. By Anuradha Varanasi Published Mar 22, 2022 10:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Static electricity could remove dust from desert solar panels, saving around 45 billion litres of water every year. Some of the largest solar farms in the world are in deserts, such as Mohammed bin ...

The spacecraft landed in 2019 to study the deep interior of the planet. NASA is being forced to end its Mars lander mission early because of dust. Officials announced Tuesday the InSight spacecraft is ...

South African researchers have developed a new cleaning system for solar panels that uses a color-sensing light-to-frequency converter to detect dirt. It can reportedly remove around 95% of the dust ...

The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers created solar cells made out of simulated moon dust. The cells convert ...