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 ...

Rather than focusing on getting passengers from A to B as quickly as possible, airlines needed to figure out how to do it ...

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 ...

NASA is exploring options for replacing its aging T-38 Talon jet trainers. The space agency seeks aircraft with high ...

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...

You might have noticed that the wings of unpowered gliders look very different from fighter jets. That's because they're optimized for completely different modes of flight. Long, straight wings are ...

The electrification bug is rapidly engulfing pretty much all sides of the world's transportation industry. After spreading like wildfire in automobiles, electrification is now rapidly taking hold in ...

Clouds from wildfires can create firenadoes and produce thousands of lightning strikes that generate even more fires ...

It's been a long time coming, but finally actual build work has begun on a new kind of airplane engine, one that might revolutionize the industry. NASA calls it the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core ...

Storm-chasing NASA pilots recently spent weeks flying an aircraft not unlike a spy plane directly into thunderstorms in an effort to gain new insights about lightning and severe weather. Lightning has ...

NASA-developed wind tunnel technology is being used by the aviation industry to perfect new airplane designs throughout the entire development process. The Boeing Company, Seattle, is one manufacturer ...