The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday successfully completed a series of key qualification tests for drogue parachutes. These were carried out to develop a deceleration system for ...

A series of qualification tests for drogue parachutes, which have been carried out to develop a deceleration system for ISRO's Gaganyaan crew module, were successful, the space agency said on Saturday ...

A skydiving attempt in Australia went awry after one person’s parachute snagged on the aircraft’s tail, leaving them suspended 15,000 feet in the air. The plane, a Cessna 208 Caravan, took off from ...

The pilot had no other choice than to issue a "mayday" signal to Brisbane Centre Air Traffic Control THIS is the terrifying moment when a skydiver’s parachute gets caught on the tail of a plane high ...

Video released by Australia’s transport safety agency on Thursday shows the harrowing moment when a skydiver’s parachute was caught on the tail of an airplane before a jump in September. According to ...

Shock during a military exercise in Indonesia: a soldier's parachute failed. Boasberg reverses course on Jan. 6 defendants pardoned by Trump With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of engineers in Montréal has reinvented the parachute using kirigami, the ancient art of paper cutting. (CREDIT: Frédérick ...

The parachute is attached to its payload by one suspension line, preventing tangling and deployment problems. The manner in which the parachute acts doesn’t alter even with the escalation of the ...

A team of researchers in France and Canada might have just improved upon humble parachutes by making lots of holes in them. Inspired by Kirigami, the Japanese art of folding and cutting paper into ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...