Testing is one of several space agency air taxi projects designed to study safety, operations, comfort, and more.

NASA is equipped for the challenge. Before its transition to NASA in 1958, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ...

An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is shown after a drop test at NASA's Langley ...

NASA/Lori LoseyThe best way to solve a mystery is by gathering evidence and building a case. That's exactly what NASA ...

NASA researchers have been using a tiny aircraft dubbed “Son of Concorde” in trials to assess the impact of supersonic flights on residents. The tests took place in a wind tunnel in ...

NASA announced a successful test of its X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., that could lead to ...

The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...

On July 30, 2025,asteroid 2025 OL1—measuring roughly the size of a small aircraft—will pass Earth at a distance of 1.29 million kilometers.This event, closely tracked by NASA and international space ...

On July 26, 2025, the four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission made their way to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

NASA's X-59 is taking slow steps towards supersonic flight, beginning taxiing tests at US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, ...

An asteroid named 2025 OL1 is heading Earth’s way. Measuring around 110 feet across, it’s roughly the size of a large aircraft.