NASA spacecraft will use fuel that’s safer for humans

Many spacecraft depend on hydrazine in their fuel, but it's extremely hazardous -- and that means very careful fueling processes that slow things down. NASA will soon have a safer option, however. It's about to test-fly the Green Propellant Infusio...

The Air Force will have combat lasers on its war planes by 2020

The Army has its HEL-MD (not to mention is working on GI Joe-style rifles and minesweepers); the Navy put a battleship-mounted railgun aboard the USS Ponce; and within the next five years, the Air Force expects to have laser weapons of its very own...

NASA tests Shape-shifting Airplane


NASA researchers in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and FlexSys Inc. successfully completed initial flight tests of a new morphing wing technology that has the potential to...

NASA tests revolutionary shape changing aircraft flap for the first time


Thanks to its green aviation project, NASA is getting closer to developing technology which is going to make future airliners quieter and more fuel-efficient with the successful flight test of a wing...