Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

In a brief statement, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Director Dave Gallagher announced that the organization is letting go of around 550 employees at its La Cañada Flintridge facility in ...

NASA’s OPERA project delivers analysis-ready satellite data to federal agencies, supporting environmental monitoring, disaster response, infrastructure assessment, and agricultural management through ...

NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft continues to make progress toward its first flight with a new successful round of testing. The X-59 "quiet" supersonic jet was designed to break the sound barrier ...

NASA's revolutionary X-59 jet is steadily progressing towards its first flight test. Starting on Oct. 30, engineers with NASA's X-59 Quesst program (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) have been conducting ...

Today NASA is officially trotting out the finished version of an experimental aircraft that looks like a stretched-out arrowhead. Painted in red, white, and blue, the plane is called the X-59, and it ...

Jared Isaacman, a pilot and financial tech billionaire, has commanded two groundbreaking spaceflights, including leading the ...

As the moon's shadow passes in front of the sun during the solar eclipse on April 8, NASA plans to chase the phenomenon with jet planes. Three research teams plan to place scientific instruments ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For decades, researchers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have been studying melting glaciers from sea level to space. Recently launched satellites, like the ...

From New York City to London in just 90 minutes? NASA is exploring the potential of a supersonic jet that one day could do just that. Transatlantic jetliners currently travel at about 600 mph, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five ...

NASA's New Supersonic Jet has completed its wind tunnel tests for the scaled-down version of the X-59 QueSST, which also aptly goes by the name "son of Concorde." The NASA logo is displayed at the ...