Two filmmakers spent more than a year chronicling the Solar Impulse 2 as it flew around the world with no fuel.Their Nova film takes us inside the cockpit. This Solar-Powered Plane Can Now Fly Around ...

The second version of the 100% solar-powered airplane, Solar Impulse, has been completed. It debuted April 9 in Payerne, Switzerland. The new airplane will be the one used in next year's attempted ...

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. The Solar Impulse 2 flies ...

A solar-powered airplane made a smooth trip on Monday from Texas to a stormy part of America – St. Louis, where the Solar Impulse team put a portable, inflatable hangar to its first real-world test.

The Solar Impulse aircraft successfully completed a 24-hour flight using only solar power, demonstrating its ability to collect and store sufficient energy to last through the night. This milestone is ...

H55, a spinoff of solar-powered flight project Solar Impulse, announced it has successfully completed a flight with an all-electric two-seater airplane which it sees as a “stepping stone” for electric ...

The Solar Impulse HB-SIA, an all-solar-powered airplane developed over seven years, is preparing for its first international flights to attend events in Brussels and the Paris Air Show. This tour is a ...

After more than 24,000 miles, a solar-powered plane just completed the final leg of its flight around the world. Solar Impulse 2 -- the experimental solar plane which first set out on its ...

When Solar Impulse 2 returned to Abu Dhabi in July 2016, it completed something that had never been achieved before. The aircraft had travelled around the world powered only by energy collected from ...

Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, a pilot is flying a plane to Hawaii relying solely on a single energy source: the sun. Solar Impulse, a company that aims to legitimize the possibility of zero-fuel ...

New company 49 Sud will lead development and construction of the round-the-word Climate Impulse. Credit: Climate Impulse Bertrand Piccard, who co-led the Solar Impulse project that completed the first ...