Because of the X-43's design, NASA had to release it from a B-52 for it to fly. Once airborne, however, the flights were short-lived. NASA destroyed the first jet in 2001 when it malfunctioned ...

NASA married a scramjet to an experimental plane, called the X-43A Hyper-X. The X-43 began its existence as a concept in a NASA wind tunnel in 1996. It was considered a risky investment because no ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Although this week’s spectacular NASA night launch was all about the debut liftoff of the Space Launch System (SLS), the ...

Since 1951, NASA (known in those pre-space days as NACA) and the United States Air Force have used the “X” designation for experimental aircraft that push technological boundaries. The best ...

NASA has sent a whole host of spacecraft across the solar system and even beyond. They range from crewed ships to orbit and ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope detected two new streams of gas trailing behind a galaxy within a cluster called Zwicky 8338, ...

Hurricane Milton has pushed the return to Earth of SpaceX's Crew-8 astronaut mission for NASA to no earlier than Sunday (Oct.

NASA is moving forward with two space mission proposals, aiming to uncover new insights into cosmic phenomena like black holes and galaxy formation.

October 7, 2024 • A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the damage, with the goal of helping future asteroid deflection.

2024-09-28T11:04:43 ... NASA covers the SpaceX Crew-9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA covers the SpaceX Crew-9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Javascript must be enabled in order ...

Space Launch Complex 40 is located just south of Kennedy Space Center. Once the Crew-9 duo launched, the Falcon 9 rocket ...

The switch in rides left it to NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov to retrieve Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Since NASA rotates space station crews approximately every six ...