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American Airlines passengers flying from Dallas Fort Worth International to Austin Bergstrom Airport can usually arrive in the Texan capital city less than an hour after taking off, but travelers on Tuesday's flight were not so fortunate. Their journey stretched to more than seven hours after the operating aircraft came into contact with a deicing truck.

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the investigation of dark energy.

Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner mission were "abandoned" in space.

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

Southwest Airlines said that its Chief Transformation Officer, Ryan Green, will leave the position with effect from April 1, 2025, according to the airline's filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring stars. They pack quite a punch, bombarding Earth with cosmic rays.

Southwest is the USA's second-largest passenger operator. With a fleet of 800+ Boeing 737s, the carrier's statistics show that enplaned passengers totaled 175.5 million in 2024. Traffic rose by 2% compared to its prior high in 2023 (despite the average passenger fare increasing by nearly double that rate). As traffic rose faster than capacity, the load factor increased to over 80%.

It's not the most exciting set, but Lego Marvel Logo & Minifigures expertly achieves what it sets out to do.

After the space community braced for a brutal shake-up at NASA this week, a last-minute decision on Tuesday (Feb. 18) spared over 1,000 agency employees on probationary status from being dismissed.

Eleven airlines plan narrowbody flights from the US to Europe this year. In order of annual departures, they are Aer Lingus, Icelandair, JetBlue, United Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, PLAY, SAS, Iberia, Azores Airlines, La Compagnie, and Delta Air Lines. This article focuses exclusively on United and Delta's single-aisle transatlantic operations. (American last had such flights in 2019 before its Boeing 757s were withdrawn.)

Scientists suggest adding jumping exercises to astronauts' training regimens, to minimize the health effects of long space missions, such as moon and Mars trips.

Arajet, the Dominican Republic-based airline, has scheduled two services from two Dominican cities to San Juan, Puerto Rico, opening up more connections from Punta Cana and Santo Domingo.

Using a revolutionary dark energy camera, astronomers have discovered the largest haul of "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes ever seen, but there should have been more.

The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

On February 19th, a Delta Air Lines Airbus A350-900 featuring a special livery was spotted. This aircraft's livery celebrates the fact that Delta is turning 100 years old in 2025, and it features a unique combination of silver and gold features. It is not surprising for a legacy airline to use special liveries to celebrate company milestones, especially ones as important as its 100th anniversary. The aircraft in question bears registration MSN720.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from just over the lunar surface.

The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada has provided an initial update on its investigation of the crash involving the Endeavor Air CRJ900, which was operating a flight on behalf of Delta Connection on February 17.

WestJet is returning to Amsterdam,influenced by its KLM codeshare. While Canada's second-largest airline previously served the Netherlands from Calgary between 2021 and 2023 with the Boeing 787-9, things will be very different this time.

Etihad Airways has announced that in 2024, the airline achieved its highest-ever profit after the number of carried passengers grew by a whopping 32% year-on-year (YoY).

In February 2025, all seven of our planetary neighbors will be visible from Earth. So what does such a planetary alignment mean for science? Well, not much — unless you're an interplanetary spacecraft.