Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

NASA has converted a 747 jumbo jet into a flying telescope. The Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy flies high above the clouds to capture information about the stars. Video courtesy ...

GE's Boeing 747 testbed took to the skies for several days, trailed by a NASA jet that conducted three-dimensional imaging of contrails for continuing study. Contrails are clouds made of ice ...

NASA's Gulfstream G-III will use lidar technology to scan contrails of GE's Boeing 747 An inflight engine failure suffered by a cargo 747-400 involved a smaller version of the PW4000 that failed ...