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Discussions about an aircraft's entry into service with a carrier can be frustrating. After all, delays may occur while the network usually evolves, particularly with additional routes announced. As of April 29, Etihad Airways' inaugural passenger-carrying Airbus A321LR service remains on August 1 from Abu Dhabi to Phuket. For now, the Thai destination is expected to be one of 17 airports to see the LR from Abu Dhabi until early 2026.

As scientists, we must not forget our collective direction: the pursuit of truths and our responsibility to share these truths — and only these truths — with humanity.

JetBlue has detailed that 11 of its Airbus aircraft powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G engine family, also known as the Geared Turbofan (GTF), are grounded as of Q1. The airline said that these aircraft are scheduled to return to service in the future.

* Article updated 16:05 UTC 29/04/2025 following clarification from Hawaiian Airlines *

Virgin Atlantic has confirmed that it will not be returning to Tel Aviv, Israel, with the airline emphasizing its codeshare agreement with EL AL, which offers direct connections between London and Tel Aviv, Israel.

The crescent moon will seemingly jump over the planet Jupiter between the nights of April 29 and April 30.

Lufthansa Group has announced its Q1 results, detailing that all of its passenger airlines were loss-making, which does not include ITA Airways. The Italian carrier’s performance was accounted for as operating results from equity investments, which worsened year-on-year (YoY).

Long-forgotten mine fields in Cambodia are being revealed in decades-old, recently declassified images from U.S. military satellites.

SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit tonight (April 28), its second liftoff of the day.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the first big batch of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation to low Earth orbit today (April 28).

The European Space Agency's Biomass forest-monitoring satellite will launch atop a Vega-C rocket early Tuesday morning (April 29), and you can watch the liftoff live.

Satellite imagery reveals scope of damage from one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Seventy-year-old NASA astronaut Don Pettit looked pretty peaked shortly after returning to Earth from the ISS this month. And he was pretty peaked — he'd just thrown up on the Kazakh steppe.

China's outgoing Shenzhou 19 crew have handed over the reins of the Tiangong space station to a new set of astronauts.

Space isn't safe from money-hungry corporations, and sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 will play with that idea in 2025. Here's everything we know about Obsidian's sci-fi sequel.

The Meta Quest 3S costs as little as $299.99, and with performance to match its big sibling, the Quest 3, it's an absolute winner.

A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.

The mass shooting in Kashmir last week had many consequences. Aviation-wise, Pakistan temporarily prohibited Indian airlines from overflying its country. While the ban is due to end on May 23, airlines must detour, adding time to the affected journeys, more fuel burn, higher operating costs, higher emissions, more complications, etc. Foreign airlines are not banned from overflying Pakistan, so they gain a brief competitive advantage from quicker and less expensive trips.

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