Two pilots are slowly carving their way into a new future of solar-powered flight as one embarks on the latest leg of their around-the-world journey in a plane powered only by the sun. After some ...

A Swiss pilot claims to have broken the more than 15-year-old altitude record for electric, solar-powered aircraft. Raphaël Domjan on Tuesday flew an electric plane propelled by solar cells, ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Bertrand Piccard was flying from Morocco to Spain last year - finishing up another highly successful test of Solar Impulse, the revolutionary airplane he helped design that ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Aviation history is about to be made. The Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered airplane that's just completed a flight from Hawaii has arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area and ...

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 meters, or 31,237 feet, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swiss pilot Raphaël Domjan soared more than 31,000 feet above the Alps using nothing but sunlight, appearing to shatter the ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- A solar-powered airplane landed in California on Saturday, completing a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean as part of its journey around the world. A ...

RABAT, Morocco - An experimental solar-powered plane landed in Morocco's capital late Tuesday after a 20-hour trip from Madrid in the first transcontinental flight by a craft of its type. With the ...

Live to fly another day — that’s what the Solar Impulse 2 will have to do. The solar plane landed in Mountain View, California, late Saturday and instead of taking off Friday as planned, the 2.5-ton ...

Battery problems on the Solar Impulse, the airplane that has been flying around the world using only the sun's power, have grounded the plane until next spring. The lithium-ion batteries overheated on ...