An AI-based software update that delivered an autonomous mission planning capability to NASA’s Perseverance rover in late ...

Under the bright lights of sterile clean rooms here on the Johns Hopkins University campus, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is ...

As crewed aircraft and spacecraft become increasingly advanced, one biological reality remains: Humans are not designed to ...

L to R: Sir Iain Gray, Martina Bruno, Lindsay Mitchell, Jonathan Cooper, Sally Cordwell, Sir George White, and Claire Hazelgrove MP. (Credit: Aerospace Bristol) AIAA has designated the Filton Site and ...

In early October, AIAA connected with enthusiastic students at the 2026 S-STEM Scholars & PI Meeting, hosted by AAAS at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. The conference brought together ...

Even before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s saber rattling this year about high-speed weapons, the U.S. was laying plans to sharpen its focus on hypersonic weapons, motivated mainly by China’s ...

DARPA in 2021 awarded three contracts for the first phase of its program to develop a nuclear reactor-powered engine and spacecraft, including to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems for a ...

AIAA technical committees (TCs) and integration and outreach committees (IOCs) have selected the best professional and student technical papers presented at recent AIAA forums. With a standard award ...

The U.S. Air Force is moving forward with its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, meant to provide a fleet of drone wingmen to team with conventionally piloted fighter jets. As the CCA concept ...

The United States believes Russia is developing a nuclear weapon that could be put into orbit and detonated to knock out satellites. If that happened, what would you and I experience, and what would ...

On the left is a Hall thruster identical to those installed on NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe. On the right is a SpaceX argon Hall thruster operating at the company’s vacuum facility in Redmond, ...

SpaceX has proven that thousands of satellites can be operated without collisions in low-Earth orbit, but that task could become more difficult as Amazon and others deploy their own megaconstellations ...