NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on upheaval within NASA last year.

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft ...

NASA's X-59 successfully reduced sonic booms from thunder-level 105 decibels to whisper-quiet 75 decibels, potentially ending the 50-year supersonic flight ban.

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...

SpaceX plans two Starlink satellite launches next week from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, starting Sunday night. Get launch times and details.

At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, there are three remarkable aircraft that the agency uses for research missions referred to as the WB-57. NASA classifies it as a jet, but it's not quite the ...

NASA’s Dream Chaser space plane is finally online after nearly two decades of development. Inspired by older NASA shuttle designs, Dream Chaser brings back the lifting-body space plane concept — but ...

NASA engineers are targeting April for an uncrewed Starliner mission, with a crewed flight possible this fall, the agency’s commercial crew manager said Monday. Reading time 3 minutes Starliner’s ...

Commercial airlines spend a lot on fuel each year. Some estimates for 2024 put the figure at $291 billion, and that's up from $271 billion in 2023. We can only assume that number climbed even higher ...

CLEVELAND — The X-59 is a one-of-a-kind aircraft. And that same can be said about its test pilot, Nils Larson. "Flying the airplane is exciting, but that engineering is really exciting as well,” said ...

HOUSTON — NASA is releasing more information about a dramatic hard landing involving one of its research aircraft at Ellington Airport that sparked flames and smoke as it slid down the runway. The ...

Dramatic video footage showed flames billowing from the bottom of a NASA research plane as it made an emergency belly landing at a Texas airport Tuesday. The NASA WB-57 aircraft was forced to slide ...