Space & Aviation

What happens to your checked bag after you hand it to the airline? We took a field trip to Dulles Airport to follow a suitcase from check-in to baggage claim.

This two-panel graphic represents the results of a new study that suggests that smaller galaxies do not contain supermassive black holes nearly as often as larger galaxies do. The new study, as described in our latest press release, analyzed over .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the Universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

A new book explores the experiences of all 61 U.S. women astronauts

A new symphony based on data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope, transforms astronomical observations into music that traces the life cycle of stars.

Turns out the best way to understand a hurricane is . . . to fly directly through it. We talk to members of the Air Force and NOAA Corps who take to the skies to gather vital weather data.

While you wait for AirSpace Season 11, check out this episode on the science and history of auroras from our friends at Smithsonian Magazine’s podcast, There’s More to That.

The first results on the iconic active galactic nucleus MCG–6-30-15 captured with the XRISM mission show the most precise signatures yet of its supermassive black hole’s extreme gravity and the outflows that shape its galaxy.