From its unveiling of the B-52 bomber and Boeing 707 jet to the classified RQ-180 unmanned aircraft and China’s anti-satellite weapon, Aviation Week has produced some legendary scoops over the past 100 years. Here are some of our favorites.

The head of Darpa’s Tactical Technology Office says the world is on the verge of leaps in supersonic travel, vertical takeoff and landing systems, flight proficiency and safety, space launch and awareness of space.

The key to putting humans on Mars, developing supersonic and hypersonic commercial transports and introducing space tourism? Produce smarter humans. Learn how.

Five months before Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon, NASA was already pursuing some grandiose plans for the post-Apollo era.

Richard Branson has been a pioneer on many fronts, but he is especially intense when it comes to space exploration and the promise it holds for a better Earth.

The Japanese space agency is investigating what caused the Astro-H X-ray telescope to break into pieces in March.

Future space exploration will raise issues that we can only begin to consider today. Are the societal benefits derived from human exploration, expansion of knowledge and scientific progress worth the risk to human life of what amounts to a one-way trip to Mars?

Aviation Week’s foray into the new arena of digital imaging led to two scoops of high-level intrigue and bargaining with the U.S. military.