Solar Impulse 2 has set a new world record for the longest non-stop solo flight. Landing in Hawaii Friday morning local time, the sun-powered plane, piloted by Andre Borschberg, stayed in the air for ...

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Solar Impulse 2 is scheduled to take off next year and fly around the world using only the sun as an energy source. A lot of advanced engineering went into this craft, but we're still a long way from ...

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 world’s first round-the-world flight to be powered solely by the sun’s energy made history Tuesday as it landed in Abu Dhabi, where it first took off on an epic 25,000-mile (40,000-kilometer) ...

Installed inside a life-size mock-up of the cockpit of the second plane currently under construction, André Borschberg took up the challenge of piloting the Solar Impulse simulator non-stop for 72 ...

When rudimentary solar power was created in the 19th century, the scientists behind the technology had no idea what it would be used for.In 2013, venture capitalists and environmentalists Bertrand ...