NASA has converted a 747 jumbo jet into a flying telescope. The Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy flies high above the clouds to capture information about the stars. Video courtesy ...

The flight testing for this program will include the General Electric flying testbed, a Boeing 747-400, and the NASA Langley Research Center's research aircraft, a modified Gulfstream GIII ...

Scientists have spotted an asteroid as wide as a Boeing 747's wingspan that has a one-in-83 chance of ... passing somewhere within 66,000 miles of the planet, according to NASA's Center of NEO Studies ...