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The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of more jet engines like the one that blew apart at 32,000 feet in a deadly accident aboard a Southwest Airlines plane

Southwest Airlines sought more time last year to inspect fan blades like the one that snapped off during one of its flights Tuesday in an engine failure that left a passenger dead

Southwest Airlines sought more time last year to inspect fan blades like the one that snapped off during one of its flights Tuesday in an engine failure that left a passenger dead

Los Angeles harbor commissioners have approved a permit for Space Exploration Technologies to build a facility to manufacture a Mars rocket that will be so big it will require an oceangoing barge for transport to launch sites

A survivor of a mass shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school is calling for a boycott of two of what he calls the biggest investors in gun manufacturers _ BlackRock and The Vanguard Group

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says SpaceX will build a big, new rocket in the city's port

U.S. stocks closed broadly higher Monday, adding to the market's gains from last week

Russian lawmakers have submitted a wide-ranging bill that could freeze crucial exports to the United States

Virgin Galactic has conducted the first powered test flight of its new space tourism rocket

China's threat to raise tariffs on U.S. goods could be a disaster for American soybean farmers but a boon to their Brazilian and Argentine competitors, European aerospace companies and Japanese whiskey distillers

YouTube says Nasim Aghdam entered through its parking garage before terrorizing an outdoor courtyard at its San Bruno, California headquarters while firing shots that wounded three people

A next-door neighbor of the YouTube shooter's parents says Nasim Aghdam moved with her parents from San Diego to the small city of Menifee southeast of Los Angeles about five years ago

A Florida congressman who's already among the wealthiest U.S. lawmakers could become even richer after he and other Republicans muscled a sweeping rewrite of the tax code through Congress

US and China exchange sanctions, raising fears of a full-blown trade war

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has placed 10 satellites into orbit for Iridium Communications

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launches 10 new Iridium satellites from California

China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control Tiangong 1 space station is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime in the coming days, although the risk to people and property on the ground is considered low

A highly automated, multibillion-dollar plant in Colorado that destroys U.S. chemical weapons is over budget, behind schedule and beset by troubles that could worsen the danger to workers

Airplane maker Boeing is hit by the wannacry computer virus but company says the intrusion caused little damage

A bill to keep providing tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to a Maine shipyard is getting support from lawmakers