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When Emirates revealed yesterday that it would be branching out into the field of package delivery, many assumed that it was little more than a harmless April Fool's joke. After all, the UAE flag carrier did so with a rather implausible photograph depicting one of its Airbus A380s parked on a suburban street. However, the airline has since revealed that its announcement had more than an element of truth.

Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here's why scientists say this is something to track.

While passengers with special needs, such as those traveling with medical devices, often have incident-free flights, occasionally, this could create issues with airline staff for various reasons. Recently, a passenger was asked to deboard a Frontier Airlines flight because of her Wearable Cardiac Defibrillator.

Southwest Airlines has scheduled one flight on November 30, 2025, offering non-stop service between Nashville Airport, Tennessee (BNA), and El Paso, Texas (ELP). The flights are set for that single day, catering to travelers looking to either depart or return between the two cities.

NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.

Check out this peek at new alien abduction thriller "Watch the Skies" coming to theaters May 9.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.

American, Delta, Hawaiian, and United all deploy widebodies (aircraft with two aisles) on domestic flights. Yet using Cirium Diio data to examine every planned flight shows that only Hawaiian and Delta have increased such operations compared to last summer. This article focuses exclusively on Delta.

Cloud-dodging eclipse chasers in New Brunswick and Québec, Canada, captured the solar horns, reflections and all kinds of weird views as the sun rose partially eclipsed.

President Trump has nominated space policy expert Greg Autry to be NASA's chief financial officer, as he did back in 2020 to no avail.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will meet Boeing leadership on Wednesday to discuss in person what transpired onboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft during their mission last year. The pair launched on Starliner on June 5, 2024, but the spacecraft was forced to return to Earth uncrewed on September 7, with Williams and Wilmore returning on March 18 onboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his Fram2 private astronaut crew got a two-for-one deal when they watched a rocket launch ahead of their own launch on March 31.

Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's atmosphere as a sensor to detect a distant disturbance.

Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test aboard the International Space Station.

Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.

In March TU Delft conducted unique measurements with a high percentage of (more) sustainable aviation fuel. During education flights for third-year students with teaching and research aircraft PH-LAB, there was a mixture in the tank of regular kerosine with 38% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

The first images of Earth's poles from the Fram2 Crew Dragon have been uploaded from the orbiting spacecraft, and the views are breathtaking.

Welcome to my 162nd weekly routes article! It includes 12 subjectively exciting stories about services that took off between March 25 and 31. Click here to see my last jam-packed article!

NASA's "quiet" new supersonic jet, the X-59, just passed a key engine test, bringing it closer to its first flight later this year.

The JWST was used in a creative way to capture direct images of distant worlds.