An innovative team of engineers from NASA joined up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grad students, among others, to improve upon the traditional airplane wing. The researchers ...

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NASA has pushed a small research jet to 144 mph while it was still glued to the runway, using a radical new wing design that aims to make future airliners far more fuel efficient. The high-speed taxi ...

You might have noticed that the wings of unpowered gliders look very different from fighter jets. That's because they're optimized for completely different modes of flight. Long, straight wings are ...

NASA has picked Boeing to develop a demonstrator of a truss-braced-wing narrowbody aircraft, part of a programme aimed at advancing technologies that could make the next single-aisle commercial ...

The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today's, with longer, thinner wings that provide a smoother ride while saving fuel. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

NASA and Boeing this week showed off new technology that could go a long way toward reducing the size, weight and drag of future, greener aircraft. NASA and Boeing said they recently completed tests ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

Aircraft interiors seem to get more and more cramped with each passing year, but in terms of overall plane design, not much has changed recently. However, that may not be the case for much longer, if ...