53 results for "aircraft"

The Boeing 747-8, affectionately known as the "King of the Skies," has cemented its place in aviation history as the world's longest passenger aircraft. Measuring an impressive 76.3 meters in…

The USS Gerald R. Ford stands as a testament to naval engineering prowess, representing the pinnacle of aircraft carrier technology. As the world's longest aircraft carrier, this behemoth stretches an...

The E-4B Nightwatch, colloquially known as the "Doomsday" aircraft, has recently been spotted conducting a rare flight over Europe. This sighting has sparked interest and speculation about its purpose and...

The hypersonic era is coming into focus with significant advancements in unmanned aircraft technology, promising to redefine the standards of modern military aviation. These developments could well change the game...

NASA scientists have discovered a new type of gamma-ray emission produced by tropical thunderstorms, called "flickering gamma-ray flashes." Using advanced detectors aboard a high-altitude NASA aircraft, researchers found that these…

A team of researchers from Spain and Japan has made a significant discovery by detecting a diverse array of live fungi, bacteria, and viruses high in the Earth’s atmosphere. This...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully executed its first targeted reentry of a satellite, safely guiding the Salsa satellite back into Earth's atmosphere on September 8, 2024. This pioneering maneuver...

In an unfortunate series of events, NASA has decided to ground Boeing's Starliner spacecraft after declaring it unsafe. This has resulted in astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams being stranded...

NASA’s X-59 QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Technology) aircraft is on the brink of making history, as it nears its highly anticipated maiden flight. Designed to break the sound barrier without producing...

Rocket Lab successfully launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for Capella Space on August 11, 2024, marking the company's 10th mission of the year and its 52nd orbital mission overall. The...

NASA has successfully demonstrated a groundbreaking technology by streaming 4K video from an aircraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and back using laser communication. This achievement, conducted by a...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick has captured stunning images of red sprites, a type of transient luminous event (TLE), from the International Space Station (ISS). These rare atmospheric phenomena were observed...

As the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season begins, a potential tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico is drawing significant attention. Expected to become Tropical Storm Alberto, this system has prompted...

Boeing’s much-anticipated Starliner spacecraft is set to launch today, marking a significant milestone in the company's efforts to establish itself as a key player in space travel. This mission, part...

NASA's innovative X-59 supersonic jet has successfully cleared its Flight Readiness Review, marking a crucial milestone on its journey towards its maiden flight. This review, conducted by a panel of...

North Korea has informed Japan of its plan to launch a rocket carrying a space satellite between May 27 and June 4, according to the Japan Coast Guard. The intended...

Posted on Dec 10, 2022 in Planet Earth, Science This weekend’s stories include What the world’s largest liquid mirror telescope means for astronomy to How mass extinction and evolution are...

Today’s stories include Back when SETI began, we expected intelligent extraterrestrials to make things easy for us to Oumuamua still puzzling scientists 5 years after discovery to NASA’s Webb takes...

Reposted today with new entries from Jacob Misra, Senior Research Investigator at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science and UCLA’s Mark Morris, a founding member along with Nobel Laurate...

Today’s stories range from How common is life in the Universe? And how can we find out? to Primordial black holes may lurk throughout the universe, and much more. “The...

Today’s stories range from A New Place for Consciousness in Our Understanding of the Universe to Installing the World’s Highest Weather Station on Mount Everest to Military Memo Deepens Possible...

Today’s stories range from RNA “evolution” breakthrough offers new clues on the origins of life to Elon Musk could spawn the first post-humans to a whales’ tale of climate change...

Posted on Feb 18, 2022 in Planet Earth, Science, Technology The “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people,...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Contrary to science-fiction icon Arthur C. Clarke’s admonition never to attempt a landing on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, NASA announced on Friday that it had selected SpaceX to launch a planned...

Another week of mind-bending news from the Blue Dot from NASA reports Hubble trouble to Albert Einstein’s assertion that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on May 12, 2021 in Planet Earth, Science, Technology Another wild week of news on Planet Earth, ranging from Russia cloning an ancient warrior army to the scary prospect...

NASA’s announced the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet when the solar-powered “Ingenuity Mars Helicopter first became airborne at 3:34 a.m. EDT (12:34 a.m. PDT) – 12:33...

Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet occured on February 18th when NASA’s Perseverance rover — a robotic “scientist” weighing 2,260 pounds–parachuted through the tenuous Martian air, marking...

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Our Moon has yielded some long-held secrets in recent weeks, from possible evidence of ancient life on Venus to NASA’s new discovery...

Posted on May 31, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes Black Holes, strange galactic paradoxes for whom creation is destruction, death life, chaos order, have been described as “the seductive...

Posted on Apr 27, 2020 in Extraterrestrial Life, SETI, UFO In 2019, the Gallup Poll decided to directly ask the American public about their experiences with UFOs, for one simple...

Posted on Oct 25, 2019 in Astronomy, Science Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other telescopes have put together a detailed map of a rare collision between...

Posted on Jun 28, 2019 in Featured Articles, Geology, NASA, Science, Space A dramatic photo released by NASA shows the volcano’s plume shooting up over clouds above Raikoke, an uninhabited...

The 1947 crash in the New Mexico desert that become legendary among UFO fans and conspiracy theorists turns out to have been nearly as strange a visit by an alien...

Posted on Jun 18, 2019 in Climate Change, Featured Articles, News, Science The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing...

A professor of physics, Kevin Knuth, formerly a research scientist who worked for four years at NASA’s Ames Research Center, attended the 2002 NASA Contact Conference, which focused on serious...

Posted on May 17, 2019 in Astronomy, Science A dark legacy of the Nazi Era looms far beyond Pluto in the cold outermost reaches of our solar system. Earlier this...

Posted on Mar 13, 2019 in News, Science The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the...

Posted on Jan 23, 2019 in Climate Change, Science Was this the trigger of the “Great Dying” mass-extinction event (and a host of wild conspiracy theories)? A NASA satellite detected...

Posted on Dec 13, 2018 We know more about the ancient lakes of Mars than we know about Antarctica’s subglacial environment, but in three weeks, a team of intrepid Antarctica...

“If you wanted to build this thing on the far side of the moon where no one’s living or orbiting much, then that could be a safer place for it,”...

As a NASA research scientist who worked for four years at NASA Ames Research Center in the Intelligent Systems Division, and now a professor of physics, Kevin Knuth attended the...

The internet went slightly “bananas”  on December 27, 2017 with the New York Times’ story implying that extraterrestrials are real and the U.S. government has been tracking them for years....

“Disclosure has already occurred. Disclosure is not an event, it’s a process,” said Luis Elizondo, former head of a hitherto unknown government operation called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program...

Are we alone? Unfortunately, neither of the answers feel satisfactory. To be alone in this vast universe is a lonely prospect. On the other hand, if we are not alone...

Posted on Jul 6, 2018 in Science, Technology, UFO “Even though they have been partly censored they can’t conceal the fact the UK military were interested in capturing UFO technology...

Posted on May 28, 2018 in News After the B-24 bomber carrying Second Lt. Thomas V. Kelly Jr. was shot down off the coast of what is now Papua New...

Posted on Mar 10, 2018 in UFO We have no idea what’s behind these weird incidents because we’re not investigating. As with Sputnik, the national security implications of these incidents...