Hypersonic flight has long been a military obsession, but the idea of a sitting United States president crossing oceans at ...

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection materials ...

China’s ability to churn out advanced armaments is a key element in Xi Jinping’s vision of making his country less reliant on ...

From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields—formally called thermal protection systems—are critical for protecting ...

NASA built an X-42A hydrogen-powered scramjet to reach speeds of Mach 9.6 for a brief moment in 2004. Therefore, this new unmanned aircraft would be more of an optimization and refitting of an ...

Three-year-old Castelion is worth $2.8 billion after raising $350 million to fund its ambition to supply thousands of weapons to the U.S. government.

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has taken a major step in strengthening Australia's hypersonic research ...

The nuclear age began with a flash over Hiroshima, a warning etched in human conscience. Eighty years later, we again stand at an inflection point. Leaders in Washington and Moscow must choose ...

In a significant advancement of its military capabilities today, the U.S. Army activated the Bravo Battery, 1st ...

Northrop Grumman and the US Air Force have completed a major flight test of the Stand-In Attack Weapon, or SiAW.

Many of the aircraft that lived to retirement are now on display both in the US and in Europe. The Lockheed U-2 was a black ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss talks with Dr. Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo about what he calls “almost a watershed ...