The ability to beam power over long distances has wide-ranging implications, from enabling faster travel within the solar system to transmitting power from the sun to other locations like the Moon.

Every hour the sun beams more energy onto Earth than it needs ... Another technique uses moveable mirrors to focus the sun's rays on a collector tower, where a receiver sits.

The first shows rays of the sun penetrating a small section of clouds. To Yash, the scene looked like "golden beams coming from an alien spaceship." The second shows a dome shaped tree atop a dome ...

On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun ... should beam home its collected ...