It's 9:32 and for this week's activity on the signs of it. Kids can learn about the skill of observation. First warning meteorologist Alex Lacey is showing us all how to make homemade parachutes.

These parachutes may be full of holes, but they really hit the mark. Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, or paper cutting, scientists made parachutes that open automatically when dropped. And ...

The parachute for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) passed flight-qualification after testing in March and April 2009 inside the world’s largest wind tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center. In this ...

In the summer of 1948, anyone gazing up over the remote mountains of central Idaho might have seen something they could never quite explain. A small plane droning across the empty backcountry, and ...