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Over the years, the wealth and geographical convenience of the Middle East has seen the region become a key market for commercial aviation. The area's main hubs are ideally located to handle connecting traffic between Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, while, at the same time, Middle Eastern countries are working hard to establish themselves as tourist destinations in their own right to boost traffic.

The Wachowskis' attempt at reenergizing the space opera genre is widely considered to be a low point in their career, but maybe we were too harsh?

Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.

The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).

According to the US Department of Transportation, ~77 million passengers flew between the US and Europe in the 12 months to November 2024. More than three in 10 of the country's international passengers flew to/from the continent. Some 37 carriers operated 500+ routes and 340+ airport pairs. They filled an average of 83% of the seats for sale.

Rippled textures in a shallow lake bed on Mars indicate that ice-free liquid water once pooled here.

If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

This Astronaut star projector is currently just 20% off, offering gorgeous indoor nebulas in a fun, novelty model at a sizable discount.

A SpaceX rocket stage fell to Earth early Wednesday morning (Feb. 19), blazing a trail of fire through European skies.

Narrowbody aircraft on long flights elicit many reactions. Focusing on the Boeing 737,OAG data shows up to 28 daily transatlantic flights in the peak summer, the highest number to date. The type will operate one in every 53 passenger flights eastwards from the Americas, which would rise for just North America.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

Passengers onboard Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 have been offered $30,000 each following the crash landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. The Endeavor Air CRJ900 has now been removed from Toronto's Runway 23 as operations at the airport normalize following the crash and a spell of bad weather.

The F-22 Raptor is powered by two RTX Corporation'sPratt & Whitney F119 afterburning turbofan engines, so their maintenance and sustainment are key. Pratt & Whitney has been working on making the F119s smarter with real-time data monitoring, software improvements and potentially additive manufacturing. The improvements being made on the F119 can quickly transfer to other Pratt & Whitney jet engines—not just the F-35’s F135. So let’s take a look at the $1.5 Billion gross in F119 sustainment the United States Air Force (USAF) just bought.

In the past month, there have been two high-profile plane crashes that have stoked a new fear of flying into the minds of millions of people in the public. From the deadly mid-air collision over the Potomac in late January, to the recent flipping over of a Delta CRJ-900 on landing in Toronto, aviation safety is in the spotlight now more than ever. Yet despite this, US President Donald Trump has begun firing probationary employees working at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Blue Origin just revealed the identities of five of the six crewmembers for NS-30, its next suborbital space tourism mission. The company has not yet announced a launch date.

Airlines For America (A4A), a Washington DC-based trade association and lobbying group, has teamed up with several major US carriers as they look to reverse a rule imposed by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) concerning wheelchair damage. In the lawsuit that has been filed against the DOT, A4A and the carriers in question have argued that the existing ruling is 'unlawful.'

Four airlines will operate between the Middle East and Australia this year: Emirates,Etihad Airways,Qatar Airways, and Virgin Australia.The market last had four carriers in 2018, when Qantas pulled out of Dubai and returned to stopping in Singapore en route to/from Europe.

Airbus has confirmed in its full-year results presentation that it is continuing to face logistical and supply chain issues involving Spirit AeroSystems. These are having knock-on effects concerning the production of certain aircraft types, and, most notably, will delay the entry into service of the Airbus A350F. Nonetheless, the European planemaker's outlook on the whole is remaining largely positive.

A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 67, just a day after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.