Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering News

The same Global Positioning System (GPS) technology used to track vehicles is now being used to track cows.

A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy.

Scientists have discovered what may be ice that was exposed when soil was blown away as NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars last Sunday

Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help archeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past.

A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.

A new global portrait taken from space details Earth’s land cover with a resolution never before obtained.

Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, have captured rare video of a meteor falling to Earth.

Seeking an out-of-this-world travel destination? Outer space will rocket into reality as “the” getaway of this century, according to researchers at the University of Delaware and the University of Rome La Sapienza. In fact, the “final frontier” could begi

Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency.

The number of airline mishaps attributed to pilot error significantly declined between 1983 and 2002. While the overall rate of airline mishaps remained stable during that time, the proportion of mishaps involving pilot error decreased 40 percent.