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The world’s first sun-powered aircraft performed a successful landing on Tuesday after completing a one-year mission. Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi. The sun-powered machine went on its very first mission last year. Its pilots and creators believe...

Originally published on 1Sun4All. Solar Impulse reports that the Silicon Valley–based Internet company known as Google (heard of it?) has become Solar Impulse’s official Internet Technology Partner. To commemorate this, the&nbsp...

When you get on an airplane to fly across the country – or even across the ocean – you probably don’t think too much about how much fuel is actually being used by that airplane you’re sitting on. You probably also don’t think about exactly what the environmental...

It took longer than expected but, as Bertrand Piccard, the co-founder of Solar Impulse has said many times, “if it was easy, someone would have already done it.” On July 26, 2016 Solar Impulse, the only plane capable of flying day and night using only...

The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed, after the Solar Impulse aircraft touched down in Abu Dhabi. Bertrand Piccard piloted the plane for a final time, steering it safely from the Egyptian capital Cairo to the UAE. He has...