Solar sails have some major advantages over traditional propulsion methods—most notably, they don't use any propellant. But, how exactly do they turn? In traditional sailing, a ship's captain can ...

The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation of the failure suffered by Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle more than a year ago. That failure occurred on Sept.

The C3 Unit at the Callide Power Station is offline after a structural failure at its cooling plant No-one was injured in the incident on Monday It comes less than two years after a catastrophic ...

The voluntary carbon market, or VCM, has been promoted as a tool for businesses, governments, and other entities to offset ...

The probable cause of the American Airlines Flight 587 crash on Nov. 12, 2001, was "in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by ...