Aerospace

Private spaceflight company will try to land the first stage of its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on an uncrewed ship in the Pacific

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 25, 1915

Can you stop them from flying it over your house? No one knows, and that is a big problem for the drone industry

Five years after a failed insertion into planet's orbit, Akatsuki tries again

Superpowers are flexing military muscles in orbit, but the U.S. can lead the world away from a planetary disaster

At the “Innovation: An American Imperative” symposium October 20 on Capitol Hill, industry leaders and members of Congress talked about shoring up federal support for basic research and development

The Pentagon hopes to generate more "disruptive" weapons technologies by pursuing closer ties with researchers in Silicon Valley and elsewhere

Commercial travel on supersonic jets never took off because of the sonic boom these aircraft make as they rip through the atmosphere. But NASA's success visualizing the shock waves could lead to advances in jet design that make these ultra-fast aircraft quieter and ultimately commercially viable.

The large piece of wing could offer up clues for authorities hoping to locate the rest of the airplane and determine what happened to the ill-fated aircraft

NASA's New Horizons team decide on their next target, a classical Kuiper Belt object that can be reached by January 2019, but the agency must still approve funds for this extended science mission

Close encounters between aircraft pilots and unlicensed drones in the U.S. have nearly tripled in the past year

NASA's Curiosity rover provides a beautiful, scientifically appetizing view of what's ahead on Mount Sharp on Mars