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The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

A Boeing 737-800, once used as a high-profile campaign jet for US Vice President JD Vance, is now being chartered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation flights across Central America. Registered as N917XA, the 22-year-old aircraft previously sported a red, white, and blue livery during the 2024 election trail.

Four years have passed since Breeze Airways' first commercial flight, on May 27, 2021. Since then, Breeze's fleet has grown to 53 aircraft: 40 Airbus A220-300s, 10 Embraer E190s, and three E195s. It has already started to phase out its E195s. The airline previously said it'd retire all its Embraers in 2026, but some may be retained and used for charter flights.

ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also looking into a possible Apophis effort but faces funding issues.

Saturday's celestial concert salutes ESA's 50th anniversary and 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II.

Climate scientists are gathering on YouTube for 100 hours to talk about the importance of weather research amid White House funding cuts.

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

Nearly nine years have passed since the Airbus A220 (previously called CSeries) entered commercial service. The A220-100 (CS100) first flew passengers with launch customer SWISS in July 2016. The higher-capacity and more popular A220-300 (CS300), with much better economics, first flew with airBaltic in December 2016.

In a headline move that caught the world of commercial aviation by storm, United Airlines and JetBlue announced this week that they would be teaming up to expand connectivity primarily from the New York and Boston areas with a host of new interline agreements that bring the two airlines closer together than ever before. Not only will new flight slots be allocated to both carriers at their hubs in the New York Area, but passengers will be eligible to use United MileagePlus miles across both airlines.

Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair, is in line to potentially receive a share options bonus worth over $110 million. As of May 29, the airline’s shares had remained above the defined threshold for the required period, meeting one of the two performance criteria set out in his long-term compensation agreement.

SpaceX must figure out what happened on Flight 9 of its Starship megarocket, during which the vehicle's second stage made an uncontrolled reentry over the Indian Ocean.

United Airlines has had a long and tumultuous history at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), including an initial run of several decades before it returned to the airport for a year and a half in 2021.

Blue Origin plans to launch its 12th human spaceflight mission today (May 31), and you can watch the action live here at Space.com.

While Global Airlines has divided opinion among avgeeks, there is little doubting the fact that it has been one of the biggest stories in the airline industry in recent years. Earlier this month, the company reached a milestone that many of its doubters would have thought impossible, when its Airbus A380 made its maiden transatlantic passenger flights, albeit operated by Hi Fly rather than Global Airlines itself.

While perhaps unsurprising, American Airlines has more long-haul flights from London Heathrow than anywhere else, including its US hubs. This is driven by its oneworld membership and, more importantly, its transatlantic joint venture with British Airways.

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by.

The chief executive officer of London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Thomas Woldbye, was reported to have been asleep with his phone on silent during the widespread outage at LHR that occurred more than two months ago.

SpaceX plans to launch the new "Version 3" of its Starship megarocket by the end of 2025 and is working to send the vehicle to Mars a year later, Elon Musk said.

A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Oregon as speedy solar winds fuel geomagnetic storm conditions.