NASA needed a way to transport massive Saturn V rocket stages across the U.S., and one bold proposal was the Howard DH-100 DBA—also known as the "Damn Big Airplane." Featuring ten engines, a cockpit ...

The aviation museum in Tucson has new planes, some of which you can go in. Here's how long it takes to go through the museum and how to get tickets.

When planes exceed Mach 1 (the speed of sound, or about 767 miles per hour—1,234 kilometers/hour for those using the metric ...

Feb. 13, 2025 — Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the Moon, a ... Temperamental Stars Are ...

NASA ended operations of its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) in 2022. The SOFIA aircraft is a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a reflecting telescope. It was ...

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of striking Earth in 2032. The four planet-strong "planet parade ...

This one will be large enough to hold a race car cockpit mockup, which explains the welded aluminum frame. We were most interested in the six custom-made linear actuators, though. Aluminum ...

Astronaut Jeanette Epps extracts DNA samples from bacteria colonies for genomic analysis aboard the International Space Station's Harmony module. Well, unlike many news organisations, we have no ...

While designed originally for military service, some models would eventually enter service with commercial airlines. The aircraft itself was derived from a different experimental plane, the ...