Sequestration setting up NASA for more start-stop development

Additive manufacturing could create structures from lunar materials

German research aims to speed composites production through collaborative automation

Japanese space programs face strict new reality

Inexpensive satellites little bigger than a Rubik's Cube have been the provenance of university and small research projects for more than a decade. Increasingly, innovations from the smartphone world are showing how these classroom projects can play outsized roles in space science.

Rocket-boosted transonic flight launches final test phase

In a bustling factory in Mississippi, shiny blue cradles holding new aircraft radars line up for shipment like jets on a flight line, ready for takeoff

Thrust-oscillation technology finds military, civilian applications