After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s…

During an event at NASA Headquarters in Washington Thursday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Department of Health and Human…

NASA and international researchers are studying the air quality in Asia as part of a global effort to better understand…

What: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft will fly over Central Valley and surroundings areas as part of an air…

In September 2023, NASA aircraft began supporting an effort to find and map critical mineral deposits in Western regions of…

Contrails, the lines of clouds from high-flying aircraft that crisscross the skies, are familiar sights, but they may have an…

Based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., Joe Piotrowski is the lead operations engineer for the King…

NASA to Showcase Revolutionary Aero Tech at Aviation Day Event

Flying over and tromping through watery landscapes along the East Coast, working alongside NASA scientists, and recording measurements about the…

Media are invited to a virtual media day on Tuesday, Aug. 15 at 8:00-9:00 AM PST to learn about NASA…

In July 2023, NASA’s ER-2 aircraft has been flying close to thunderclouds to investigate lightning and its connection to the…

The STAQS mission is connecting air quality from space to skies to the streets of Chicago, New York, Toronto, and…

Often research associated with air quality and pollution prioritizes transportation – especially car emissions – as an area of focus.…

This summer, NASA's Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) will celebrate its 15th anniversary.

More than 1 billion people rely on seasonal mountain snowmelt as a resource for their water supply and a team…

NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, completed more than 30 flights in…

PALMDALE, Calif.- The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) will be flying from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale,…

When researchers test communications technology for the national airspace, they will be using a newly acquired tool at NASA’s Glenn…

On Oct. 14, 2022, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo and Eugene Tu, center director at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s…

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was a mission of discovery, revealing unseen – and sometimes unseeable – parts…

A group of university students and mentors flew aboard NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s DC-8 aircraft to study air quality…

NASA and its partners at the German Space Agency at the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) will conclude…

The X-59, NASA’s quiet supersonic experimental aircraft, has arrived back at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California, following…

NASA’s ER-2 high-altitude aircraft No. 806 returned to flight after three years of significant modifications and heavy maintenance. Flying from…

Scientists repeatedly check the weather forecasts as they prepare aircraft for flight and perform last-minute checks on science instruments. There’s…

After a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 53 students flew on NASA’s DC-8 as part of NASA’s Student…

NASA’s DC-8 aircraft deploys to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Aug. 17 after more than six months…

NASA and university scientists will be studying the intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States to understand their effects…

When the U.S. Navy retired its fleet of S-3B Vikings from active duty in 2009, not all of them were…

The X-56B remotely piloted aircraft began a new flight series. The flight was April 19 at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research…