NASA's giant Mars Antenna failure hinders spacecraft communication and asteroid studies amid the federal government shutdown.

Mounted inside a modified Boeing 747, NASA’s SOFIA telescope once soared above 99% of Earth’s atmosphere to study the ...

Special Freighter, operated by Terra Avia. This modified passenger aircraft is designed for cargo transport, featuring a ...

Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into space. Astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly rode the reusable, ...

UPS calls the giant center Worldport. The facility at Muhammad Ali International Airport employs some 20,000 people, making ...

The Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy is the largest military transport aircraft in the United States Air Force, although not the ...

Sonic booms are caused by shockwaves from rapidly compressed air, similar to thunder. As an aircraft flies, it pushes upon ...

The International Space Station has been around for decades housing astronauts in space, but have you wondered how big it is?

Domina Stamas participated in a two-week analog astronaut mission in Poland simulating life on the moon. The Westlake Charter ...

The moon is pretty bright and big tonight. The beaver moon peaked on November 5, illuminating skies across the US ...

A turbofan engine uses what is called the Brayton cycle, a process similar to a super-powered air pump and heater. The ...