With its fin and lightweight body, iMDS-17 can descend without a parachute, unlike conventional dropsondes. To predict whether a typhoon will intensify and where it will move, it is important to ...

Hollywood stuntman Luke Aikins became the first person to complete a skydive without a parachute or wingsuit Saturday, landing in a net a third of the size of a football field and 20 stories high.

Emma Carey survived a 15,000ft fall during a skydive after her parachute failed to open, and she had two thoughts before ...

This is hard, but it can be done. To demonstrate, in July 2016, stuntman Luke Aikins did a pre-planned jump with no parachute, landing on a net suspended above the California desert. "It is tiny ...

A former paratrooper hopes to break two world records by jumping 200ft (61m) from a helicopter into the sea without a parachute. John Bream, nicknamed the Flying Fish, said he would fall for about ...