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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.

After recently making the headlines for reversing its famous "bags fly free" policy, Southwest Airlines has now attempted to begin expanding its network amid a long period of organizational restructuring. The carrier today announced that it would add two new routes to its schedule, including nonstop service from Will Rogers International Airport (OKC) in Oklahoma City to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). In addition to this flight, the airline will also begin flying from Eppley Airfield (OMA) in Omaha, Nebraska, to San Diego International Airport (SAN).

United Airlines has received the approval of the Federal Aviation Administration for its first Starlink-equipped aircraft type, paving the way for further installation on other aircraft. The airline plans to install this technology across its entire fleet of regional jets by the end of this year.

After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?

With today being April 1st, companies around the world have taken the opportunity to spread a touch of light-hearted joy by spinning a few April Fools' Day stories that are just slightly too good to be true. Whether you were able to smell the rat straight away or briefly believed the unlikely tales, it has been a fun start to the month seeing the different things that companies across the globe have come up with.

SAS has announced a significant expansion of its summer schedule, with the airline adding 28 new routes from Copenhagen, Denmark, Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden, strengthening its role in connecting Northern Europe to the world.

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus, including the effects of the sun's radiation on its seasonal shifts.

An American Airlines flight from New York to Tokyo was forced to divert to Dallas/Fort Worth after it had already begun crossing the Pacific Ocean on its way to the Japanese capital.