Aerospace

A new type of micro aerial vehicle saves precious power by perching on leaves or walls instead of hovering

Hydrofoiling boats competing in the America's Cup World Series came to New York City to show off the cutting edge of sailing technology.

Former Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his latest science fiction thriller, The Orion Plan, featuring the method whereby aliens most likely really would colonize our planet.
 

Following a smooth cargo launch, a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster touches down successfully on a drone ship

Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight company sticks another vertical landing in unmanned test

In 2018 the Space Launch System will carry 13 shoebox-size CubeSats into deep space

Today's Nuclear Security Summit tackles proliferation, and scientists try a way to trace gases from secret bombs

Former CIA chief Michael Hayden defends drone attacks, but critics fear they may do more harm than good.

The two robotic spacecraft are the first part of the two-phase European–Russian ExoMars program to hunt for signs of life on the Red Planet

Small, relatively cheap and quickly upgradable microsatellites could soon make weather prediction far more reliable

This interactive data visualization shows the birth year of every human who has been to space