Air and Space

Officials say nine people were killed in a plane crash in South Dakota Saturday, including the pilot and two children.

KINGSTON, Ontario (AP) - Police in the Canadian city of Kingston say seven people have died after a small plane crashed in the area Wednesday evening.

According to the FAA, a new law was recently passed that describes how, when and where you can fly drones for recreational purposes.

A pilot on an Aeroflot plane died in mid-flight.

A pilot was able to escape without injury after his plane became tangled in high-voltage power wires near Shakopee, Minnesota on Saturday.

A plane flying out of LAX made an emergency landing Thursday after flames were seen spewing from its right engine. 

NASA has spotted "battling galaxies" in deep space, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

A study looking into how zero gravity can affect blood flow in the body showed astronauts staying onboard the International Space Station for long periods of time can face health risks.

The Leonid meteor shower will peak over the weekend into Monday, bringing up to 15 shooting stars per hour. 

The most distant world ever explored 4 billion miles away finally has an official name: Arrokoth.   NASA said Tuesday that means "sky" in the language of the Native American Powhatan people.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the snowman-shaped Arrokoth on New Year's Day, years after exploring Pluto. At the time, this small icy world 1 billion miles beyond Pluto was nicknamed Ultima Thule given its vast distance from us.

A camera has captured the incredible moment when a meteor lit up the sky over the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

After a quiet few months at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a second round of satellites for its global internet network this morning. Sixty tightly-packed Starlink satellites blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on time at 9:56 a.m.

Astronomers and sky watchers will be ready for a rare celestial event taking place Monday, November 11th. That's when Mercury, our innermost planet, passes directly between Earth and the sun.  

A pilot was killed in a single-engine plane crash Thursday after it collided into a home in the Upland area, the San Bernardino County Fire Department confirmed. 

An asteroid slightly smaller than the largest structure in the U.S. is slated to harmlessly zoom past Earth later this month.

As NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover continues to venture along the vast landscape of the red planet, a series of unsettling photographs was recently sent back to Earth, capturing a truly eerie and lonely landscape. 

During Monday's test, Boeing counted down to zero, then the Starliner's launch abort engines fired. The capsule soared nearly a mile, then parachuted back into the New Mexico desert. The entire flight lasted one-and-a-half minutes.