NASA has just sent a spacecraft into orbit that looks less like a traditional satellite and more like something from a 1950s ...

Aug. 3—Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA showed off a NASA DC-8 airplane parked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Thursday that is said to be "the ...

In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...

Residents in Southern California may notice low-flying NASA aircraft later this month as part of a mission to study air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, the agency announced Friday. From June ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

We now know who will fly on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. On Thursday (Aug. 1), NASA revealed the four astronauts of Crew-10, which will launch toward ...

Longer, thinner wings are on the horizon as NASA and Boeing continue to research what the future of aviation could look like ...

The largest flying research laboratory in the world is headed for retirement after 37 years of operation. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory on Wednesday will make its final flight to Idaho State ...

While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday, launching to ...