The age-old question of what would happen if you threw a paper airplane out of the International Space Station (ISS) has been ...

In 2022, Spain and France closed some of the countries' airspace when a 20-ton rocket body was about to reenter the atmosphere, according to the paper. The rocket body ended up plummeting into the ...

A new paper from Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo looks at “the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric reentry” – in other words, what happens ...

Another school year is over but among the many memories that students will cherish was an event that took flight at the ...

Scientists predict that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space junk orbiting above the Earth, and some are large enough to make their way back down to dry land with little warning.

Making paper planes is an art form going back thousands of years. As we look forward to the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final, we celebrate handmade aerodynamics.

Stratolaunch completed the first powered flight of a Talon-A vehicle last year when the rocket plane launched over the Pacific Ocean and fired its liquid-fueled Hadley engine —produced by Ursa ...

Radian’s solution is a rocket-powered sled that runs along a two-mile rail and accelerates up to Mach 0.7 — 537 mph (864 kilometers per hour) — before releasing the space plane, which then ...