NASA might be best known for sending astronauts to the moon and launching rockets, but it has and continues to study Earth ...

The fastest air-breathing vehicle ever built was the NASA X-43. Only three of these aircraft were built, with one being destroyed and two operating successfully. The X-43 testbed aircraft measured 12 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A research aircraft for NASA was forced to make a belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas the morning of Jan. 27. The ...

Stuck in traffic on your way to work? Georgia Tech researchers say the answer to gridlock may one day come from the skies. Inside a brand-new prototyping lab, students are working with NASA to convert ...

NASA is developing a new type of wing that can save commercial airlines billions of dollars every year and early tests look ...

NASA has selected Boeing and its industry team to lead the development and flight testing of a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) demonstrator aircraft. The technologies demonstrated and ...

In 2022, NASA dropped an aircraft cabin (with six crash dummies) from 35 ft. The cabin was destroyed but showed the need to improve computer models. In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft ...

As a resident on board the International Space Station, Anne McClain had quite a view. But, interestingly, something she saw while on a commercial airplane rendered the NASA astronaut speechless. Just ...

A NASA research aircraft made a belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston after its landing gear failed to deploy. The crew members on board the WB-57 aircraft were reported to be safe following ...

A research aircraft for NASA was forced to make a belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston, Texas the morning of Jan. 27. The space agency said it is investigating why the landing gear could not ...