The Solar Impulse is powered by solar cells on its wings absorbing sunlight. — -- The sun-powered plane Solar Impulse 2 departed Phoenix, Arizona, for Tulsa, Oklahoma, this morning as it ...

The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane landed safely early Saturday in New York City, its final U.S. destination in a more than year-long trek around the world. Not wanting to miss the highlights ...

The Solar Impulse 2 airplane touched down early Tuesday, completing its final leg of the first entirely solar-powered flight around the world. The experimental airplane landed amid much fanfare in ...

Despite the vast dimensions, Solar Impulse 2 weighs in at only 2,300 kg (5,070 lbs) -- about the same as a Ford Fiesta sedan -- with a small single-person cockpit.

The Solar Impulse 2 is traveling from China to Hawaii. — -- It's the launch of the newest adventure in this first-of-its-kind aircraft. For the next 130 hours, six days and six nights with no ...

Solar Impulse HB-SIA touched down about 12:30 a.m. at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. Video footage shows the pilot, Bertrand Piccard, stepping out with a smile and a wave, holding up a flag ...

The co-pilots and founders of Solar Impulse – the remarkable solar powered plane that is making a ground-breaking flight around the world – have made a stunning prediction: There will be ...

Solar Impulse 2 has landed in Seville, completing the world's first solar-powered crossing of the Atlantic. The 6765km (4,200mi) flight took just shy of three days (71 hours and 8 minutes), taking ...

The Solar Impulse 2 HB-SIB took off from Payerne airbase in Switzerland today and successfully soared above the clouds for more than an hour before landing safely. The solar-powered plane has no ...

Solar Impulse coming in to land in Abu Dhabi just before dawn The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed, after the Solar Impulse aircraft touched down in Abu Dhabi.

The aircraft - called Solar Impulse-2 - took off from Abu Dhabi, heading east to Muscat in Oman. With businessman and pilot Andre Borschbeg at the controls, the aircraft touched down in Oman at 16 ...