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 ...

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 ...

Space shuttle Enterprise, riding on the back of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, lands at JFK International Airport, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) April 27, 2012 ...

The Boeing 747 continues to be recognized as one of the most iconic commercial jets of all time. Originally introduced in the 1960s, the game-changing aircraft brought unprecedented capacity, range, ...

Updated January 31, 2023 at 5:42 PM ET Boeing on Tuesday delivered the last 747 jet ever made, handing over a freighter version of its iconic aircraft to Atlas Air. Thousands of current and former ...

NEW YORK — Space shuttle Enterprise took to the air Friday morning (April 27) for the first time in more than a quarter-century, but the two-hour flight is also to be its last. Its final destination: ...

A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport, four decades after the iconic combination departed on its one and only international goodwill tour. The Lego ...

The jet transformed an industry, bringing luxurious amenities and lengthy nonstop flights to the masses — all in a design that was both enormous and elegant. But the reign of the mighty 747 has ended, ...