Air & Space Magazine

Three acres of the former Tyee golf course on the south end of Sea-Tac Airport has been converted into a pollinator habitat, supporting more than 30 hives.

The Latest in Airport Jobs: Beekeeper

Beehives create green spaces where you'd least expect them.

On the 70th anniversary of its 1928 nonstop flight from Ireland to Canada, the Bremen gathers a crowd of well-wishers in its namesake town in Germany.

The Long, Strange Saga of the <i>Bremen</i>

After 70 years in exile, the airplane that answered Lindbergh’s flight made a second Atlantic crossing.

In this artist’s concept of a new gallery, One World Connected—scheduled to open next year at the National Air and Space Museum—Planet Earth occupies a central position, just as it does in all planetary exploration.

On Earth Day, We’re All One World

From the Director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

Steve Ladd loved flying the A-10. Here a Warthog releases flares to confuse heat-seeking missiles.

Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot

A veteran of the F-4 and A-10 reflects on flying—the way it used to be.

The Gulfhawk flew again, briefly, in airshows of the 1960s before being donated, in accordance with Al Williams’ wishes, to the Smithsonian in 1969.

Al Williams Made History With his Aerial Performances Between the Great Wars

His ride: the Curtiss 1A Gulfhawk

Layered sediments like these in Jezero Crater may be good places for Perseverance to search for evidence of life. Should we wish the rover luck?

We May Never Find Life on Mars—And That Could Be a Good Thing

Perseverance, the Fermi Paradox, and the Great Filter.

Trained to fly at the Wright Brothers aviation school, Henry "Hap" Arnold rose to head U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

How Hap Arnold, the Architect of American Air Power, Overcame His Fear of Flying

Despite his phobia, the five-star general built the U.S. Air Force.

Starship prototype SN10 sits on the launch pad prior to its March 3, 2021 test flight.

Starship Rocket Takes Off, Lands, Blows Up, Gets Swept Aside for the Next Test

SpaceX has picked up the pace of test flights for its next-generation moon rocket.

An illustration based on the satellite observation data from the first confirmed instance of a space hurricane.

First Ever Space Hurricane Spotted in Earth's Upper Atmosphere

The 600-mile-wide swirling cloud of charged particles rained down electrons from several hundred miles above the North Pole

The Earth’s magnetic field does more than just cause auroral light shows. Could it play a role in extinctions, too?

Could Doomsday Come From a Reversal of the Magnetic Poles?

Lessons from the Laschamps Excursion 42,000 years ago

The Centauri system: Alpha Centauri A is the bright star to the left, Alpha Centauri B is the bright star to the right, and Proxima Centauri is circled in red.

This Intriguing Signal From Alpha Centauri May (or May Not) Be a Planet

Could the star system closest to us host a habitable super-Earth?

Need to get away from the office? Try the Portal to Mars. The portal stays open, so you can still get back for your meeting.

This New AR App is the Coolest Way to Learn About Mars

Drive a rover, walk the Martian surface, and play robot geologist, all in augmented reality.

“Who are you calling a bird-brain?”

Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought

Could they help us understand intelligent life on other worlds?

The Ingenuity helicopter carried by the Perseverance rover is about to introduce flight to Mars exploration.

Exploring Mars

Space agencies are launching new missions outfitted with revolutionary technologies, including the Perseverance rover, to learn more about the Red Planet

Members of the Mars InSight team celebrate their spacecraft's safe landing in November 2018.

The Best Books About Mars, By the Mars Explorers Themselves

Firsthand accounts of Mars exploration by the people who run the robots.

Laguna La Brava in the Atacama desert of Chile.

Arsenic and (Very) Old Life

This normally toxic substance might have been useful in the oxygen-deprived environment of early Earth.

A scene from "Into Space," produced by the German VR studio Faber Courtial. First Step covers the Apollo voyages of the 1960s. Second Step looks ahead to future moon and Mars exploration.

Five Space Experiences to Try With Your New VR Headset

The technology is getting better, and so is the content.

AI gets more capable every day. Are we prepared?

Artificial Intelligence: Cure for What Ails Us, or Looming Threat to the World?

From biological machines to superintelligence.

With no DC-3 wings to be found, maintenance crews repaired the damaged aircraft with a DC-2 wing, five feet shorter than the original. The cobbled-together airplane, said engineer Sol Soldinski, became almost as famous as the Wright Flyer and the Spirit of St. Louis.

These Frankenplanes Are Built From Parts of Other Planes

Some monster aircraft were not born. They were bolted together from whatever lay at hand.

Samantha Cristoforetti gives a Vulcan salute to honor Leonard Nimoy after the actor’s death in February 2015. She has separately posted a photo of herself from the ISS in a Star Trek: Voyager uniform.

How <i>Star Trek</i> Helped NASA Dream Big

And how NASA helped <i>Star Trek</i> stick around.

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