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The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaked on May 5-6, and the astrophotography community were there to watch it unfold.

An Aer Lingus Airbus A330-300 was forced to return to the British Isles, as the aircraft, which departed from the United Kingdom, landed in Shannon, Ireland, due to technical problems while trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

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Welcome to my 167th weekly routes article! It includes nine mini-stories about subjectively exciting services that took off between April 28 and May 5.Click here to see my last jam-packed article! Many dozens of routes started in the examined period, but, as always, only a selectionis covered.

Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination, the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson.

NASA's next moon rocket is stacking higher at the Kennedy Space Center, as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage is added to the launch vehicle.

Between April 30 and May 2, JetBlue and Breeze collectively inaugurated 10 routes, none of which had previously been served by them. Significantly, JetBlue cut Boston to Islip flights shortly before they were due to begin on April 30. While JetBlue resumed flights from New York JFK to Pittsburgh, a route it last served 12 years ago, it is not covered further in the article, as it is not new to its map.

2005 was a fantastic year for original Star Wars video games, but Revenge of the Sith's direct adaptation, quirks and all, shouldn't be forgotten.

United Airlines has yet again halted flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) after a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Sunday landed near the airport. The airline is monitoring the security situation in Tel Aviv and protecting the safety of its customers and crew.

As one carrier exits, another enters. On May 2, the German leisure carrier Discover Airlines,a member of the Lufthansa Group, began flying between Frankfurt and Minneapolis. It replaced Lufthansa, which served the market between June 4, 2024, and April 30, 2025, although passengers may still connect to Lufthansa's network.

A new 12-minute U.S. Space Force documentary called "Always Above" will be featured in planetariums throughout the country beginning on Friday, May 2, 2025.

Arp 184 or NGC 1961, a skewed or "peculiar" spiral galaxy, is still stunning in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Independent Flight Attendants Organisation (UFO) has voiced strong concerns about Lufthansa's new “Turnaround” strategy ahead of the company’s Annual General Meeting. The union argued that the cost-cutting measures could disrupt cohesion across the Lufthansa Group.

Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially return samples from the moon's mantle back to Earth, providing insight into the final stages of lunar formation.

JetBlue has announced that SKY Leasing, a United States-based aircraft asset investment management company, acquired JetBlue Ventures, the airline’s venture capital firm, for an undisclosed sum.

On May 1, Boston regained Boeing 747 passenger flights. This is because of Lufthansa,which last used the Queen of the Skies to the Massachusetts airport in October 2022. While only the 747-400 is scheduled, Flightradar24 shows the 747-8i appeared on May 1 and May 4. Importantly, Lufthansa owns its 747-400s and 747-8i aircraft, and has surely paid them off. As such, they are relatively inexpensive ownership-wise compared to brand-new alternatives, offset by higher fuel burn and maintenance.

Crack out the deck chairs, we're going Eta Aquarid meteor hunting. Here's when and where to look.

Global Airlines, together with the Portugal-based Hi Fly, have operated the former’s first-ever passenger flights as the startup airline, basing its operations so far on a single Airbus A380, is preparing for its first takeoffs on transatlantic journeys.

Another US-Canada route has been axed, this time JetBlue hitting the pause button on its seasonal flight between Boston Logan International Airport and Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia. The airline first announced this route in January as part of its larger network expansion for the summer season.

Time moves faster on the moon, and now we're one step closer to getting a lunar time zone to keep track of it.