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 ...

Nicknamed "Maxwell", the X-57 is the first X-plane that Nasa has designated in a decade, and it marks the beginning of New Aviation Horizons, a 10-year initiative that aims to kickstart the general ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA Langley/Advanced Concepts Lab, AMA, Inc. Electric cars are coming into their own. Every major car company in the world is researching battery-powered vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...