A fleet of wind-propelled robot boats could act as a sensor network covering a wide area and relay acoustic signals to a ...

NASA is gearing up to launch an advanced solar sail spacecraft later this month. Using a new boom made of lightweight polymer composites, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is scheduled to lift ...

STORY: Notice anything different about this carrier ship? It’s been fitted with two special sails called WindWings which study how harnessing wind power can cut emissions and energy usage in the ...

The electric solar wind sail is a propulsion system that uses the solar wind proton flow as a source of momentum for spacecraft thrust. The momentum of the solar wind is transferred to the spacecraft ...

A cargo sailboat docked in Brooklyn Bridge Park on May 13, bringing thousands of bottles of wine from France to Brooklyn by wind power. The schooner by French company Grain de Sail docked at One°15 ...

Cruise editor Tom Stieghorst is in Bali for a Star Clippers cruise near the Indonesian island. His fourth dispatch follows. A good part of the appeal of Star Clippers Cruises is that its ships are at ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...