New findings by NASA’s long-running Dawn mission suggest that ice lies just a meter or so below the cratered surface of the large main belt asteroid Ceres.
NASA leads the rankings among the largest U.S. federal agencies as the best place to work in 2016, the fifth year in a row it has earned the top distinction.
June 2, 2016, will forever be remembered as an unlucky day for the U.S. military’s premier flying aerobatic demonstration teams, the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds.
The U.S. State Department is reviewing the potential sale of precision munitions to Saudi Arabia, in light of concerns about thousands of civilian deaths due to Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.
The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy have intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target using Raytheon’s Standard Missile-6 Dual 1 for the first time.
SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES has €180m ($190m), 10-year contract with NATO Helicopter Management Agency to support 130 RTM322-powered NH90s operated by France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Starburst Accelerator and Leonie Hill Capital have announced a $200 million venture capital fund and expect to begin operations as soon as next quarter.
Europe’s Galileo global positioning, navigation and timing satellite constellation is to begin providing services to users on Dec. 15, 17 years after the European Commission approved the project.
U.S. Marine Forces Japan has suspended Bell-Boeing MV-22 flying operations after one of its assigned tiltrotors, worth about $80 million, crash landed in shallow waters off the coast of Okinawa due to a midair refueling mishap.
NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft soared close to Jupiter for a third time Dec. 11 with all but one of eight science instruments and cameras gathering data on features hidden below the planet’s colorful cloud tops.
The aerospace and defense supply chain stands at another inflection point for companies, especially at lower tiers. Many face pressures to grow or get out, analysts and executives say.
India’s state-run space agency has partnered with an Indian defense company on the construction of new navigation satellites—part of a broader effort to engage with the country’s private sector.
On Wednesday morning the Center for a New American Security hosts an event in Washington titled “Future Foundry: A New Strategic Approach for Military-Technical Advantage.
LTM Inc., Havelock, North Carolina, is being awarded an $86,841,322 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for logistics and technical support services for the Navy, and Marine Corps.
Boeing plans to move the headquarters of its defense operation from St. Louis to the Washington, D.C., area in January, basing top executives just a short walk away from their Pentagon customer.
Astronauts teamed with NASA’s Mission Control to grapple and berth the sixth Japanese-launched resupply mission capsule with its 4 1/2-ton cargo to the six-person International Space Station early Dec. 13.
The deadly midair collision between a Lockheed Martin F-16CM and Cessna 150M over South Carolina last year shows just how difficult it is for small aircraft to spot each other and deconflict under see-and-avoid rules.
