NASA is quietly racing to close a dangerous gap in its launch security, warning that Kennedy Space Center needs a dedicated ...

Every year, wildfires in the American West grow more intense, yet aerial firefighting remains hamstrung by a decades-old limitation: aircraft cannot operate safely in darkness or heavy smoke. This ...

Kennedy Space Center is NASA’s primary launch site, including for the Space Launch System rocket that will carry the Artemis ...

The Defense Department doesn’t know who has been flying drones recently near its military installations in New Jersey, and the Pentagon is “frustrated” by this type of activity, according to a senior ...

NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator's line of sight as ...

Holidays in Space is back at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. New this year is a NASA-themed holiday drone show.

In 2021, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab successfully launched the first powered flight on another planet with the Ingenuity drone helicopter, co-developed with AeroVironment, Inc. Now, the two are ...

A hacker group said it took control of a NASA drone and stole data from its system, but the space agency is denying the claims. On Jan. 31, the hacking group AnonSec published some 250 GB of data and ...

Major stakeholders are pitching in to help the government come to grips with the new reality created by personal drones. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) achieved a major milestone in August with the release of operational rules for the routine use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). However, the ...

In brief: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is a promising candidate for extraterrestrial life. NASA may be sending a "Dragonfly" drone to explore Titan's surface. With its vast oceans and methane-filled ...