Latest articles by Jeremy Hsu
Solar electric power could help return Mars samples to Earth.
A hover vehicle from the 1960s gets redesigned to allow anyone to fly it without pilot training.
The world's greatest flying machines helped humans not only get off the ground, but also fly into space.
The world's greatest flying machines helped humans not only get off the ground, but also fly into space.
Ten of the greatest moments in flight took humans from flying in hot-air balloons to stepping foot on the moon.
Ten of the greatest moments in flight took humans from flying in hot-air balloons to stepping foot on the moon.
A stealthy, supersonic spy plane from the Cold War set world speed and altitude records for manned jet aircraft.
Nazi Germany's Me 262 fighter jet influenced later generations of U.S. military aircraft as the world's first operational turbojet aircraft.
The zeppelin Hindenburg represented the largest aircraft to ever fly before it met a fiery end in the disaster bearing its name.
World War I transformed aircraft into flying weapons and harnessed aviation technology to the military.
Laser power wirelessly recharged a U.S. military drone for 48 hours during an indoor flight test.
DNA strands could help a new dark matter detector finally find proof of the invisible material that has haunted astrophysicists for decades.
A quantum experiment designed for launch into space first tested its survivability aboard a balloon.
A $1.5 million contest encourages smarter rovers capable of retrieving samples on Mars without human guidance.
Former astronaut Scott Carpenter stepped aboard the Intrepid aircraft carrier to mark the 50th anniversary of his Mercury spacecraft mission.
A former NASA astronaut who took inspiration from "Star Trek" will lead the 100 Year Starship project to enable interstellar space travel within a century.
Mining asteroids for precious metals and water makes perfect economic sense to a new billionaire-backed space venture.
NASA's chief technologist Mason Peck talks about smartphone satellites and other cutting-edge space technologies to advance human and robotic exploration.
NASA's early fears of space madness afflicting astronauts have long since faded, but they live on in science fiction.
A winning team of U.S. students at an innovation summit plans to use phase-changing crystals to keep NASA astronauts cool during spacewalks.
Astronauts suffering from a dulled sense of taste could get a flavorful jolt from Stellar Strips made by student inventors.
A future network of satellites could beam unbreakable keys for ultra-secure coded messages around the world.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has the funding to move forward, but faces a tougher road than past "big science" projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope.
