NASA is preparing to test experimental propulsion technology with a new zero-emission airplane officially designated X-57 (but affectionately nicknamed Maxwell). The aircraft’s 14 electric motors turn ...

Sooner than expected, NASA has gotten back in the game with X-Planes. The program starts with the X-57, a 14-motor, all-electric, 4-seat plane nicknamed Maxwell. The U.S. Air Force gets to assign ...

There's been a lot of focus on electric cars over the past few years, but roadways aren't the only place companies and organizations are putting effort into. Over at NASA, researchers are testing a ...

Back in February, NASA announced that it intends to bring back the X-planes, a series of experimental aircraft designed to test out new technologies that dates back to the first plane to break the ...

NASA’s X-57 Maxwell, the agency’s first all-electric X-plane and first crewed X-plane in two decades, is delivered to Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California in its Mod II ...

120 years ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted their gasoline-powered biplane for a record-breaking 12-second flight, the first successful, powered flight with a pilot aboard. Later this year, NASA ...

Image: NASA Langley/Advanced Concepts Lab, AMA, Inc. Graphics: Vicky Leta NASA’s X-57 Maxwell team is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for designing a fully electric propulsion aircraft and ...

NASA's all-electric aircraft is one step closer to taking its wings to the skies after conducting successful thermal testing of its cruise motor controllers, according to the space agency's recent ...

This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. (Credit: NASA Langley / Advanced Concepts Lab / AMA Inc.) NASA says it has ...