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Greece's dominant Aegean airlines says it has signed a 5 billion-euro ($5.8 billion) deal with Airbus to buy up to 42 new A320 neo passenger aircraft

President Donald Trump is announcing that he is directing the Pentagon to create a new "Space Force" as an independent service branch aimed at ensuring American supremacy in space

President Donald Trump is signing a new space policy directive at the White House that aims to reduce satellite clutter in space

12:35 p.m.: President Donald Trump is announcing that he is directing the Pentagon to create the 'Space Force' as an independent service branch

A newly announced project by billionaire innovator Elon Musk for a tunnel transit system that would carry travelers to and from Chicago O'Hare International Airport at up to 150 mph is another on a growing list of Musk dream projects

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is praising a $1 billion military drone deal between Israel Aerospace Industries and Germany as a sign of strong bilateral security ties

Spacewalking astronauts are setting up TV cameras for new crew capsules set to arrive in coming months

Rolls-Royce plans to cut 4,600 jobs over the next 2 years as part of a major restructuring effort by the British plane engine manufacturer.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has praised a decision by his attorney general to demand firearms companies stop marketing and selling untraceable weapons, or ghost guns

New Jersey's attorney general has demanded that firearms companies stop marketing and selling untraceable weapons, or ghost guns

NASA has flown a large, remotely piloted aircraft equipped with detect-and-avoid technologies through the national airspace system for the first time without a safety chase plane following it

US is imposing new security rules on air cargo entering the country, certain information for which must now go through U.S. Customs and Border Protection before being loaded onto planes

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Overseeing a top nuclear weapons laboratory that has had security and safety problems will be the responsibility of a new management team that includes two universities and a research firm

The U.S. government has awarded a team of two universities and a research firm that does work around the world a $2.5 billion-a-year contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory

The U.S. government has awarded a team of two universities and a research firm with offices around the world a $2.5 billion-a-year contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory

Overseeing a top nuclear weapons laboratory that has had security and safety problems will be the responsibility of a new management team that includes two universities and a research firm

Google pledges not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

Israel Aerospace Industries has named Swami Iyer, a former military pilot and veteran executive in the aerospace, defense and cybersecurity industries, as chief executive of its North American operations

A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three astronauts from the International Space Station has landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan