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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is making its closest approach to the Sun, and many discoveries along the way.

In the lead up to Season 10 we're reviving some of our favorite episodes. Today we bring you Emily's favorite, The Ninety-Nines.

When Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond reported to the Pentagon for his first day as Chief of Space Operations for the United States Space Force (USSF) in 2019, he began the process of standing up the first new military service in 72 years. Raymond’s responsibilities were multifold, from defining the mission, to staffing the service, to establishing bases and other facilities.

In the lead up to Season 10 we're reviving some of our favorite episodes. Today we bring you Matt's favorite.

Wherever Soviet submarines went during the Cold War, they were likely being watched by P-3 Orions. 

A global warning system keeps active volcanoes from shutting down commercial aviation.

The fully restored P-61 black widow is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.

In 1935, a squad of U.S. bombers dropped a total of 20 of the 600-pound bombs on the lava channels in the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii.

The Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk was a light 1930s biplane fighter aircraft that was designed to launch from the United States Navy airships USS Akron and Macon.

The new climate change exhibition focuses on how aerospace innovations are helping us to both understand what is happening and how we can potentially mitigate the causes and effects.