Everybody’s sad that the skies over Britain no longer boom to the sound of a passing Concorde. It’s not so much the lack of a superfast service to New York, but the more generalised regret that ...

A new multifunctional composite made of carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRP) and piezoelectric materials can use vibrations to self-detect tiny cracks. This material could be used in the aerospace, ...

Ice detection technology developed by researchers at the University of Toronto could speed up the de-icing process for ...

Titanium is fantastically expensive, and difficult to fabricate, relative to other materials—meaning it was only ever practical to use on the world’s fastest plane.

From a fighter jet smaller and lighter than a SUV to a flying machine three times longer than a Boeing 747, aircraft come in vast sizes and weights. We take a look at the freakish outliers of aviation ...

The US Navy is trying to recover two aircraft from the bottom of the South China Sea that US experts say could yield sensitive information to China if Beijing were to get to them first. The aircraft – ...

“The ancestral African tradition to which I belong tells me that clay is a portal. It is not inert. It breathes and it remembers,” writes Dr. Jareh Das, curator of “Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, ...

"We want to look at the effects of long-term exposure to space — as if the Zylon material is going for a potential six- to nine-month mission to Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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A surge in global demand across defense and aerospace sectors—including military weapons, unmanned systems, commercial aircraft, and low-Earth orbit satellites—is fueling rapid growth and pushing ...

The 'phase one' Epstein files were released in February. Along with other high-profile individuals who were associated with Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump's name was mentioned nine times ...