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More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction very difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.
It was supposed to have a 5.5-10 year lifetime, and take 6 months to calibrate. It's performing better than anyone anticipated.
Israel looks to deploy its “Iron Beam” air-defense system within the year.
It didn't look like anything I'd seen before, but I'd be a great fool to consider "aliens" as a reasonable possibility.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
"Dead" satellites aren't just space junk. They are also targets for hackers to hijack and use to broadcast misinformation.
Small spiders use their silk threads to passively fly, a process called ballooning. Learning how could help atmospheric scientists.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
Spotty connectivity isn’t going to jeopardize Ukraine’s drone attacks.
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.
In general, 5G is not a threat to human health or activities, but there are some legitimate questions about interference with airplane instruments.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the Apollo 17 lunar mission. They were the last people to travel […]
A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
After decades of development, whether NASA's Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
SpinLaunch's launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.
On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had […]
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
The sacrifices of early astronauts paved the way for Apollo’s successes, and so much more. In all of history, only 24 humans have ever escaped Earth’s gravity. The very first launch […]