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Researchers discovered that Earth's inner core is surprisingly viscous.

The year 2025 will be instrumental in Southwest's history. At the behest of shareholder Elliott Investment, the carrier will implement multiple developments to attempt to arrest lackluster financial performance. Thus far, it has started its first overnight flights and introduced a codeshare agreement with Icelandair. Other coming changes include assigned seating (ending its open seating policy) and premium seats.

For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an isosceles triangle with the two bright stars marking the heads of the Gemini Twins, Pollux and Castor.

The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the night sky.

The Lufthansa Group has announced that members of the group’s loyalty program, Miles & More, can now earn points on ITA Airways flights, with the same reward system being implemented on the Italian airline’s itineraries.

A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one of our star's fiery outbursts — and Mercury is in the picture.

One source reported in late January that Airbus Beluga Transport (AiBT) had hoped to replace the Ukrainian Antonov An-124 for a particular NATO program. However, those hopes never materialized…

Qatar Airways currently flies the Airbus A380 from its Doha hub to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, London Heathrow, Paris CDG, Perth, and Sydney.

Double-decker seating may seem like a wacky concept in the context of an aircraft cabin, though it could now be one step closer to reality. Startup Chaise Longue, looking to bring double-decker seating to widebody aircraft, announced that it has begun working with Airbus to explore double-decker seating options for the European planemaker's aircraft.

Qantashas announced that its regional brand, QantasLink, will add more capacity in Southern Australia by basing the larger De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Q400 at Adelaide Airport (ADL).

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a planet-forming disk around a low-mass star, finding it contains chemical signatures never seen before in such a disk.

Many federal employees continue to get pink slips under the Trump Administration, which is looking to trim down the federal workforce significantly. This is part of a larger plan in which the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is carefully examining several government departments in an effort to reduce federal staffing numbers.

For fans of cargo jets, or romantic avgeeks looking to pick up a late Valentine's Day present, German memorabilia company Aviationtag has just revealed its latest product. The firm is now selling aircraft skin tags made from a former DHL Boeing 757 freighter, which will instantly stand out when attached to their owners' keyrings, luggage, and just about anything else, on account of their distinctive yellow color.

By tracking the TV signal back to the plane that was reflecting it towards the Murchison Wide-field Array, astronomers will be able to learn how to remove it from their data.

At the time of writing this article, it had only been two and a half months since the tragic runway crash of Jeju Air flight 7C2216, in which a Boeing 737-800 skidded off the end of the runway and crashed into a concrete structure, killing 179 of the 181 people onboard. If it were not for the concrete structure at the end of Flight 2216's runway path as it was coming in to land, many lives may have been saved, something investigated in this article written shortly after the crash.

According to Calgary-based WestJet, demand for flights to the US has significantly decreased. The airline attributes the downturn to rising tensions between Canada and its southern neighbor as trade disputes and tariffs increase, according to Canada's CTV News. Alexis von Hoensbroech, the CEO of the Canadian airline, disclosed that sales from Canada to the United States had decreased by almost 25% in recent weeks, indicating a change in travel habits brought on by worries about the possibility of a trade war.

Even in the winter, severe thunderstorms can cause delays for select airports across the United States. Today, major airports across Florida face severe weather conditions as thunderstorms pass across the region. The weather system has managed to cause severe delays across several important and busy airports in the Sunshine State, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.

Air India has announced changes to its London operation for this upcoming aviation summer season. The airline plans to axe its longest route to the English capital while increasing frequencies on more profitable routes. Separately, the carrier is making other changes to its global network, boosting frequencies on core routes and axing others as it begins its cabin retrofit program for its Boeing 787 and Boeing 777 fleets.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance of hitting the moon instead.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion.