For @bertrandpiccard and I, it's a dream coming true," Borschberg tweeted upon landing, referring to Bertrand Piccard, with whom he is piloting the Solar Impulse 2 around the world. "I feel ...

Three days into its journey from Nagoya, Japan, to Honolulu, the solar-powered single-seat aircraft had already shattered the records for longest solo flight, longest distance traveled, and ...

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 ...

After the Solar Impulse prototype broke 8 world records for solar-powered flight, creators Borschberg and Piccard knew it was time to tackle the next big challenge: a trip around the entire planet.

The Solar Impulse 2 takes off from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the first leg of a round-the-world flight. The plane is powered by energy captured in 17,248 solar cells. (Ahmed Jadallah ...

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 ...

Next week, pilot André Borschberg will take off in the solar-powered plane Solar Impulse 2. After he does, he'll be in the air for five days, traversing the Pacific Ocean on his way from Nanjing ...

The record-setting flight of the sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 landed in Hawaii on Friday after the longest, most dangerous leg of its around-the-world journey. The plane landed around noon ET at ...

"It's the most incredible airplane of its time," Bertrand Piccard, the president and co-pilot of the Solar Impulse venture, told VIPs who gathered at Switzerland's Payerne Air Field on Wednesday ...

The Solar Impulse 2 trucked so hard on its record breaking, nonstop flight from Japan to Hawaii, it seems to have overheated its lithium ion batteries. The plane is now grounded for the next 2 to ...

The Swiss-built Solar Impulse airplane ended its two-month-long, solar-powered trip across America with a nail-biter of a flight from Washington to New York on Saturday. "Maybe if I didn't have 10 ...

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 ...