Taking a new look at how everyday human behaviors are affecting the Arctic, a major regulator of the planet's climate.
Taking a new look at how everyday human behaviors are affecting the Arctic, a major regulator of the planet's climate.
For the first time, NASA scientists are accurately calculating the level of damaging radiation people are exposed to on commercial airline flights.
Of the many dangers that plague commercial airplanes, icing stands out as one of the most treacherous.
Books that tell the stories of historic aeronautics moments are being made available for your Kindle and other digital devices.
NASA researchers dropped a small helicopter from 35 feet to see if a deployable energy absorber could lessen the destructive force of a crash.
Alumni gather to celebrate the 78-year history of the Langley Full-Scale Tunnel.
Richard T. Whitcomb has been called the most significant aerodynamic contributor of the second half of the 20th century.
A manufacturing process using electron beams works sort of like a Star Trek replicator and could mean big cost and environmental benefits for aviation.
12.18.09 - A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane’s telescope were fully opened in flight.
08.27.09 - NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate will begin accepting scholarship applications on Sept. 1, 2009, for the 2010 academic year.
08.17.09 - A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.