NASA builds cool rockets, but a lesser-known fact is that the organization also builds cool airplanes. One of the coolest projects it’s ever built, SOFIA (the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

LEGO has launched its latest Icon set – the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (10360) – featuring the modified Boeing 747 and NASA’s prototype orbiter Enterprise. Priced at $229.99, it captures a pivotal ...

NASA is shutting down SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy mission based on a modified Boeing 747SP that once made headlines for finding oxygen on Mars and water on the moon.

NASA operates a variety of aircraft for transport, training, and scientific missions, including the iconic Boeing 747SP SOFIA and the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy is still ...

NASA will announce discoveries about the Lunar Moon that the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747, uncovered at a media conference next week Monday. NASA is ...

Houston, you have a space shuttle ... carrier aircraft. NASA's original jumbo jet, which was used to ferry the space shuttles around the country, has landed at Ellington Field in Houston, where it is ...

A massive space rock is coming the Earth's way, and it will be expected tomorrow, as Asteroid 2020 RK2 will have a close-proximity visit in the Solar System and is a massive one, approximately the ...

This cover shows NASA's Boeing 747 carrying the shuttle Enterprise as it touches down at Le Bourget Airport to terminate its Paris Air Show flight demonstration. The combination was flown by NASA ...

President Donald Trump’s visit to the UK includes laying a wreath on Queen Elizabeth II’s tomb, a dance performance and a state banquet. by Ryan Simms, KOMO News Reporter TOPICS: EVERETT, Wash. — As ...

The final Boeing 747—a 747-8F—is being assembled in Everett. [Courtesy: Atlas Air Worldwide] More than half a century after the model first flew—changing aviation forever—final assembly of the last ...