Skydweller is a solar-powered drone that can fly for up to three months without landing, with researchers hoping to one day ...

A breakthrough in aviation is taking shape through a collaboration between U.S. startup Skydweller Aero and French defense ...

The drone is powered by more than 17,000 solar cells and can carry a payload of 400 kilograms. Skydweller can operate “for days, weeks and months,” Renouard said.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a propeller pod of the solar-powered Aquila drone on stage during a keynote at the Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, California April 12, 2016.

H3 Dynamics, a hydrogen aviation specialist, and XSun, a developer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), both based in France, announced a partnership targeting solar-hydrogen-electric UAS for low ...