Ultima Thule, the farthest celestial body ever visited by a human spacecraft, appears like a dark reddish “bilobate,” or a single object comprised of two large and small lobes joined like the building blocks of a snowman.
The test schedule for the USMC's next-generation heavy-lift helo, the Sikorsky CH-53K, is in limbo as the program works through various technical issues.
Osiris-Rex, NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission, maneuvered into orbit around the 1,640-ft.-wide near Earth object Bennu on New Year’s Eve.
In a “buzzer beater” before the end of the calendar year, the Pentagon notified Congress it will pursue a two-ship aircraft carrier buy for CVN 80 and CVN 81.
India’s first manned spaceflight, Gaganyaan, has received government consent in a major boost to the country’s ambitious program to send astronauts into space.
The Spanish Air Force says it has supported a new, previously unknown phase of flight tests of the multinational Neuron unmanned combat air vehicle demo.
Parts of the U.S. government will remain closed into the new year, including NASA, but that will not keep the agency’s New Horizons probe from racing past the most distant Solar System object ever early Jan. 1.
Lockheed Martin will upgrade future F-35s with a third generation of computing and electronic systems under a $712 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy.
A Russian Soyuz-2 rocket, outfitted with a Fregat upper stage, was being prepared for launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on Dec. 27.
AVX Aircraft, a company founded by ex-Bell engineers, has secured backing from L3 Technologies as it bids to develop the U.S. Army’s future armed scout helo.
In a new barrage of Christmas Eve tweets, President Trump widened his critique of U.S. national security policies championed by fired Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Former Boeing executive Pat Shanahan will become the acting U.S. defense secretary on Jan. 1 after President Donald Trump effectively fired Jim Mattis.
