In Renaissance-era Holland, Amélie, the young wife of a merchant, feels constricted by social mores, exasperated by her marriage, and fascinated by the mechanics of flight. She’s happiest when ...

The flight soared well above the Kármán line, a point at 100 kilometers (62 miles) that is often used to define the altitude at which air space ends and outer space begins. • This marked the ...

A star-studded female crew launched into space Monday morning with Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, Blue Origin, from Launch Site One in West Texas. Blue Origin’s 11th manned spaceflight, NS-31 ...

Katy Perry has hailed the “incredible and inspiring” women who will be joining her on a flight into space. The 40-year-old US pop star is part of a six-woman crew on Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard NS-31 ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches its latest star-studded space flight with an all-female crew. CNN Aviation Analyst Miles O’Brien watched as the celebrity space mission came back to Earth.

The upcoming NS-31 spaceflight will be the first all-female space flight since Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963. The flight is expected to only last around 11 minutes ...

It will be the first all-female flight crew recorded since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo spaceflight in 1963, according to Blue Origin. "I don't know how to explain being terrified ...

An unruly passenger who attempted to “barge” into the cockpit, forcing a Milan-bound flight to return to New York hours into the journey left fellow travelers terrified when the incident ...

Instead, it was engineering, specifically the mechanics of flight, that captured his imagination. At 17, he fell in love with gliders, a passion that would endure throughout his life, even after ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...