U.S. troops have been jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for more than 80 years, but a significant amount of training and preparation has gone into making paratroopers actually combat effective.

A veteran skydiver was killed when she knocked into another jumper’s parachute shortly before landing, officials said. Jasmine Black, 48, died Saturday afternoon after leaping from a plane operated by ...

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A 46-year-old Arizona man died while skydiving Saturday after authorities say he suffered a "hard landing" when his parachute did not deploy, an incident that comes just eight days after the death of ...

A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal engineers designed parachutes based on kirigami—cutting paper into ...