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The aircraft industry is expecting an increase in air traffic by 2050, and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions unless fundamental changes are made. But how "fundamental" will those changes be and what will be their e...

Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center have put the finishing touches on NASA's first Orion crew module, marking the conclusion of NASA's multiyear long effort to prepare the vehicle for its maiden launch in December an...

(Phys.org) --NASA's green aviation project is one step closer to developing technology that could make future airliners quieter and more fuel-efficient with the successful flight test of a wing surface that can change sh...

Tonight (Sunday night/Monday morning) at 00:31 UTC (21:31 Eastern), a Soyuz-13M space capsule will undock from the International Space Station. After moving away from the facility, it will begin a de-orbit burn, ram thro...

"They call this comet encounter a once-in-a-lifetime event, but it's more like once-in-a-million years," said Nick Schneider, a LASP research associate and lead IUVS scientist for the MAVEN mission. "MAVEN got there just...

Three International Space Station (ISS) crew members returned to Earth Sunday after a 165-day mission that included hundreds of scientific experiments and several spacewalks.

Communications with the STEREO Behind spacecraft were interrupted on October 1, 2014 immediately after a planned reset of the spacecraft performed as part of a test of solar conjunction operations....

The European Space Agency is going to attempt to land a probe on the surface of a comet next week. If successful, the soft-landing will be the first of its kind in history.

Every now and again, I screw up. Sometimes it's small, sometimes it's big, and I try to admit it when I do. It helps you, the reader, understand things better when I 'fess up, and it keeps me honest. Also, after all, sci...

(ESO) The new MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope has provided researchers with the best view yet of a spectacular cosmic crash. The new observations reveal for the first time the motion of gas as it is ripped ...