A breakthrough in aviation is taking shape through a collaboration between U.S. startup Skydweller Aero and French defense electronics company Thales. Their joint mission is to build a solar-powered ...

Skydweller is a solar-powered drone that can fly for up to three months without landing, with researchers hoping to one day achieve much longer flight times.

The Bremerton Aviation Center for Education unveiled the electric-powered Xenos motor-glider, built over the last four years, ...

Solar Impulse, a prototype of an airplane designed to fly around the world using only solar power, made its first real flight today. As the sun shone down on the Swiss countryside an aircraft ...

But the plane will also have to cross the Atlantic and Pacific, which will take an estimated five days, given that Solar Impulse 2's maximum speed is only 140 km/hour (about 85 mph), and it will ...

The Solar Impulse, an airplane traveling across the United States using only solar power, is in Phoenix today, after reaching Arizona from California Saturday. It took the plane about 20 hours to ...

Solar plane pilot: "They said it was not possible" 01:15. Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard aren't looking to revolutionize aviation with their solar-powered aircraft.

The unmanned solar-powered PHASA-35 airplane aims to fly up to 20 km (66,000 ft) in the sky using only sunlight. BAE Systems and Prismatic designed the aircraft and tested it two years ago.

A solar-powered plane designed to fly both day and night has succeeded in its first attempt at a 24-hour voyage. Taking off from its base in Switzerland, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA soared into the ...

Solar Aircraft HB-SIA 4 / 8 The Solar Impulse project is approaching reality with a fully assembled prototype set to be unveiled to the public for the first time on June 26th.

The Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Abu Dhabi on the first leg of an attempted 20,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe -- an unprecedented journey for a sun-powered craft.