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 ...

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

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan has set a new altitude record for solar-powered electric planes. His SolarStratos aircraft soared to 31,237 feet (9,521 meters). The team announced the achievement on ...

Swiss pilot Raphaël Domjan soared more than 31,000 feet above the Alps using nothing but sunlight, appearing to shatter the altitude record for a solar-powered aircraft, even stunning commercial ...

A solar-powered plane on an around-the-world journey was about a third of the way to California early Friday after taking off from Hawaii, the project's mission control said. Solar Impulse 2 pilot ...

A solar-powered airplane has landed in Pennsylvania, about 17 hours after it took off from the Ohio hometown of America aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 ...

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 ...

From an airstrip just north of Interstate 10 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, an aviation company recently launched an unmanned plane for a three-day flight, an important milestone on its quest for ...