All the headlines from our Aerospace Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 2 2025 // Airbus SE suffered a one-two punch on its popular A320 airliner after revealing a quality issue on some fuselage panels — just days after a software glitch on about 6,000 jets required emergency upgrades.“Airbus is...
Dec 1 2025 // Air France and Airbus clashed over the role of pilots in a mid-Atlantic crash that killed 228 passengers and crew more than 16 years ago as the two companies fought corporate manslaughter charges at the climax of an...
Nov 12 2025 // China has activated emergency plans for three astronauts who are stuck in space after debris crashed into their spacecraft.A safety assessment and other analysis of the Shenzhou-20 spaceship are being organized, the China...
Nov 7 2025 // More than six years after a Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashed in Ethiopia, the first civil trial related to the disaster that killed all 157 people on board was set to proceed.Boeing has settled most of the dozens of...
Nov 7 2025 // Boeing Co. will avoid a criminal charge over two fatal 737 Max crashes after a federal judge paved the way for a $1.1 billion settlement agreement, handing the embattled manufacturer a victory in a long-running legal...
Nov 6 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday was working to hammer out details of an unprecedented plan to cut 10% of flights at 40 high-traffic U.S. airports to address safety concerns regarding air traffic controllers...
Oct 22 2025 // SpaceX has settled a lawsuit filed by the maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity over accusations that Elon Musk’s rocket company trespassed and damaged a plot of land the card company owns in...
Sep 30 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration said last Thursday it will extend significant flight cuts at Newark, one of the three main airports serving the New York City area, through late October 2026 as it continues to face an...
Sep 29 2025 // NASA’s first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite show the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail.The pictures, released Thursday, are from a spacecraft that rocketed into orbit from...
Sep 29 2025 // Airbus and Air France pleaded not guilty to manslaughter on Monday at the start of a new two-month trial over France’s worst air disaster, 16 years after a Paris-bound jet crashed into the Atlantic, killing all...
Sep 29 2025 // Boeing Co. agreed to pay at least $50,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of John Barnett, a whistleblower who took his own life last year.Barnett, a former Boeing employee, died in March 2024 at a...
Sep 25 2025 // The new South Texas city established by Elon Musk’s SpaceX employees, Starbase, will assume control over certain parts of the beach near the rocket company’s launch site.Cameron County commissioners approved...
Sep 25 2025 // RTX subsidiary Collins Aerospace is working on restoring its onsite passenger processing software for airlines after a cyber “intrusion” disrupted operations, the company said on Wednesday.Charlotte, North...
Sep 22 2025 // Hundreds of flights in and out of Dallas were delayed or canceled Friday as telecommunications equipment issues disrupted one of the nation’s busiest airports, federal officials saidThe Federal Aviation...
Sep 15 2025 // The Federal Aviation Administration said it would fine Boeing Co. $3.1 million for a series of safety violations that it uncovered over a space of several months between late 2023 and early last year.The violations...
Sep 4 2025 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday held a three-hour hearing to consider objections to a deal between the Justice Department and Boeing that allows the planemaker to avoid prosecution on a charge stemming from two fatal 737 MAX...
Aug 29 2025 // Scientists at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Global Systems Laboratory said it has developed an hourly assessment of wildfire potential across the U.S.The Boulder, Colorado-based lab’s...
Aug 28 2025 // A telecom frequency outage prompted the Federal Aviation Administration Thursday to halt arriving flights at Newark Liberty International Airport for more than an hour, the latest tech issue to snarl flights at the airport...
Aug 20 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday agreed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two other companies that the U.S. National Labor Relations Board’s structure is likely unlawful and blocked the agency from pursuing cases...
Aug 15 2025 // Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts.Yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States. More than six years after the...