NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 (AFP) – The world’s largest fully solar-powered boat, “Turanor PlanetSolar,” docked in New York on Tuesday during a mission to study the effects of climate

India also has about a dozen PC-12 aircraft. Pilatus has contracts in place with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) and Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL). “Our vision is to establish through

Now that Airbus has passed the first-flight milestone on its A350 program, Airbus flight-test center head Fernando Alonso says one of his challenges is “not to be overconfident. He described

UK Road Safety Minister, Stephen Hammond, has announced new measures that will see careless drivers, who put other road users at risk, face on-the-spot penalties. The changes will give the

Motorola plans to launch a new, made-in-the-U.S. smartphone, CEO Dennis Woodside said on Wednesday, confirming speculation the once-dominant cellphone maker intends to make a comeback in the hotly competitive mobile

Israel could overcome advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles if they were deployed in Syria but any strikes on the system would be difficult and risk alienating its supplier, Russia. Israel has

Private asteroid mining company Planetary Resources today unveiled its plans for the world’s first publicly accessible space telescope, the Arkyd. Similar to Hubble, Arkyd is designed to take high-resolution photos

A Russian spaceship took a shortcut to the International Space Station on Tuesday, delivering a veteran cosmonaut, a rookie Italian astronaut and an American mother on her second flight to

Chinese Hackers Reportedly Compromised U.S. Designs For More Than 2 Dozen Weapons. Designs for some of the United States’ most important and sensitive weapons systems have been “compromised” by Chinese

NASA has posted an image of its new solar-electric propulsion thruster, which uses xenon ions for propulsion. The engine in the photo, blue with the glow of xenon gas, is

Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on

An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday to put a multi-use, broadband communications satellite into orbit for the U.S. military. The 217-foot