This isn't futuristic fantasy. Skydweller Aero is working toward turning this vision into reality with its innovative solar-powered plane. As the world's largest unmanned solar-powered aircraft ...

The team at [Bearospace Industries] has been working on the challenge for the while, and their Solar Dragon aircraft recently had a very successful test flight, producing about 50% more power than ...

Those rings, however, are going to “disappear” in 2025. Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains. Next year, Saturn ...

The planets are all on the same orbital plane because, during the formation of the solar system, a massive cloud of dust and gas collapsed under its own gravity and flattened into a disk.

Flying on the power of the sun is definitely not a new idea, but it usually involves a battery between the solar panels and the propulsion system ... covered solar plane entered into the Hackaday ...

It would need to be around 1.5–3 times as massive as Earth and about 250–500 Earth-sun distances from the sun, in an orbit inclined by 30° to the plane of the solar system, according to the ...

Avionics system engineer Ellie Bates ... Prismatic, which has 60 staff, took just two years to design and build the solar-electric aircraft before its maiden flight in 2020.

Uranus is much further away from the Sun than Earth is, almost 3 billion km, while Earth is only about 228 million km from ...