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An airline is set to split friends and family up in new plane boarding rules. One method that is being used by United Airlines splits up friends and families for the boarding process.
Getting passengers on and off planes in an orderly fashion can be a nightmare for flight attendants.
Airlines are trialling new techniques to shave minutes off turnaround procedures as a way to cut costs.
The biggest issue you'd face is reaching that speed in the first place.
NASA published new research recently detailing a distant system of planets, and one of the authors is 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ astrophysicist Jason Steffen. The work provides a deeper understanding of the solar system’s history using data from the retired Kepler space telescope.
Universe Today has explored the importance of studying impact craters and planetary surfaces and what these scientific disciplines can teach us about finding life beyond Earth.
These boarding methods are more efficient, but they come at a cost
We're approaching solar maximum — here’s what that means.
Associate professor of physics at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, Dr. Jason Steffen, joined us with more.
More than 115 million Americans are expected to travel over the Christmas and New Year holidays — more than a 2% increase from the same time last year and the second-highest end-of-year forecast since 2000, according to AAA.
Humans knew the Earth was round before the availability of satellite imagery, despite some online questioning how Hollywood could have depicted Earth as spherical before satellites existed.
Shaving mere minutes off flight times might seem trivial on paper, but it can result in huge savings for airlines.