In 1885, Karl Benz drove the first automobile. Though it only had three wheels and heavily resembled a tricycle, it was the birth of one of the most popular forms of transportation in the world. Since ...

Scientists have discovered that our entire solar system is racing through the Milky Way far faster than current models ...

The student organization Buckeye Solar Racing is starting its engines in its first event Saturday to showcase a car running solely on solar power. Rita Kret, a current BSR member of the electrical and ...

A billion-ton burst of solar material is racing through space toward Earth, arriving in hours and expected to unleash a G3–Strong geomagnetic storm. This fast-moving coronal mass ejection will be ...

The group is creating its own solar-powered race car from scratch, a task that takes three years. But they will be ready to compete soon. Three years. That is how long the Michigan State Solar Racing ...

Delft University is the Brawn GP of solar-car racing, an outfit so singularly successful that it has won the World Solar Challenge four times in a row. The Dutch team is back with its newest car, Nuna ...

The World Solar Challenge has kicked off for another year, with Holland's Nuon Solar Team taking an early lead. The challenge has competing teams from all over the world race solar-powered vehicles ...

Five wearying days after setting off from Darwin, the Nuon Solar Team has beaten Dutch compatriot Solar Team Twente to claim its sixth World Solar Challenge. The two teams have been neck-and-neck over ...

A Japanese team has won the World Solar Challenge, racing across the Australian outback an an average speed of 63 mph to wrest the title from a Dutch team that's dominated the past four races. The ...