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 ...

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) project at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has just replaced an airplane’s aluminum flaps with a continuously bendable surface assembly that forms ...

Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi and Kirill Peskov made up NASA, SpaceX Crew-10. Anne McClain's Sept. 28, 2025, flight from LAX airport coincided with a SpaceX rocket launch from Vandenberg ...

NASA's RAM-AO Working Group meets March 3–5 at Ames to advance autonomous multi-aircraft UAS operations and is seeking new members.

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 ...