SpaceX's successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage on a barge at sea marks another milestone in the company’s efforts to incorporate launcher reusability into its business plan.
Carter Aviation Technologies has unveiled its concept for a high-speed rotorcraft as it continues efforts to secure partners to begin production of its slowed-rotor/compound CarterCopter.
Phase 2 of the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program aims to fly the vehicle 10 times in 10 days to demonstrate routine, responsive and affordable space operations.
NASA’s Kepler space telescope began a special assignment this week to seek out and characterize exo-planets that orbit far from their host stars, along with free-floating worlds.
Answering the call from U.S. Navy surface ship officials, industry leaders are looking at putting combat and missile systems on amphibious ships similar to those aboard cruisers and destroyers.
North Korea has shown the interceptor of its KN-06 long-range air defense system, publishing apparently genuine photographs of test launches conducted in the presence of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
North Korea’s recent nuclear weapon demonstration and satellite launch could alter the regional international landscape, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says.
Air-launched weapons and other missiles are becoming a greater threat to U.S. forces, says a new Army manual on gathering and using intelligence on such threats.
Although its first commercial application is likely to be preventing frozen food packages sticking to the sides or freezers, an inexpensive ice-repellant coating developed by University of Michigan researchers is being looked at for aircraft.
The approach could enable the life-seeking mission to Europa that has strong backing on Capitol Hill by dispensing tiny ChipSats onto promising spots on the icy moon's surface to detect chemical biomarkers there.
Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and British building firm Balfour Beatty will build the new facilities that will support and house the British F-35 fleet.
The company is working with Germany on the first testing phase of several technologies capable of detecting infantry gunfire from a number of different calibers.
