Delta Flight 1334 diverted after a passenger's backpack battery ignited mid-flight. No injuries reported; crew swiftly ...

A Delta flight traveling from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale was diverted to Fort Myers on Monday morning after a lithium battery ...

The phrase "engage the ion drive" still has the ring of a line from Star Wars, but these engines have been used in space missions for more than four decades and remain the subject of ongoing research.

On June 14, 2016, four researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were preparing to ship a waist-high, ape-like robot named RoboSimian off-site. They had built the bot to rescue people from ...

Airbus is dropping lithium-ion batteries from its newest jet due to concerns that regulatory uncertainty could delay initial deliveries of A350 aircraft. Skip to Main Content.

The crash of a Boeing 787 passenger jet in India minutes after takeoff on Thursday is the latest incident that adds to woes at the troubled U.S. planemaker.

Lithium-ion batteries can still be shipped on cargo aircraft. At least two deadly cargo jet crashes have been blamed on fires caused by these batteries. A Boeing 747 crashed in Dubai killing two ...

Back in June, after installing a new lithium-ion battery into its ape-inspired RoboSimian and plugging it into charge, researchers at NASA’s Jet ...

The pure ion jet was detected using mass spectrometry. Typically an electrospray produced from ionic liquids contains ions and other species of ions mixed with neutral molecules.