After the Solar Impulse prototype broke 8 world records for solar-powered flight, creators Borschberg and Piccard knew it was time to tackle the next big challenge: a trip around the entire planet. In ...

What has a wider wingspan than a 747, weighs the same as a car, and can fly almost forever without a drop of fuel? If you were in Payerne, Switzerland on Wednesday, you would have seen the answer as ...

Solar Impulse 2 took off from New York early on Monday, attempting a historic solar-powered flight across the Atlantic. The four-day flight is the 15th leg of Solar Impulse 2’s epic attempt to ...

The world’s only ‘zero-fuel’ aircraft ‘Solar Impulse-2’ today took off from here for the holy city of Varanasi as a part of its round-the-world trip. Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg flew the aircraft ...

CAIRO – Flying low over haze-covered Pyramids in Giza, an experimental solar-powered airplane arrived on Wednesday in Egypt as part of its globe-circling voyage. The aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, flew ...