The idea of a hypersonic aircraft capable of sustained flight above Mach 5 has circulated in defense circles for years, often under the informal label “SR-72 Darkstar.” While no official confirmation ...

For more than 5 decades, a man found burned alive in Northern California remained unidentified. Now, advanced DNA testing has ...

Emily Doyle is anti-“anti-aging.” The marketing mantra of the beauty industry suggests that people — particularly women — should do the impossible: stop time and return to the skin they had in their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado Economic Development Commission on Thursday approved its largest single incentive awards ever, extending $35.2 million in state tax credits to a ...

Static test fire of a Draper liquid-fueled engine for the Angry Tortoise hypersonic missile demonstrator. Credit: Ursa Major SIMI VALLEY, California—On the heels of a milestone test fire, Ursa Major ...

Ursa Major, an aerospace and defense company, has secured $100 million in a round of Series E financing along with $50 million in debt commitments to scale manufacturing across its product lines.

Aerospace and defense tech startup Ursa Major Technologies Inc. landed a $600 million valuation in a new funding round, the latest sign that investors are eager to back companies developing new rocket ...

Ursa Major, a startup that builds propulsion systems for hypersonics, solid rocket motors, in-space mobility and space launch, has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round led by venture ...

Colorado-based engine maker Ursa Major has secured an order for its developmental Draper rocket powerplant. The propulsion start-up on 17 September said it had received a $35 million contract from an ...

Ursa Major III orbits the Milky Way at a distance of 32,600 light-years. Until now, it was considered a dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Normally such a faint object wouldn’t be classified as such, but ...

When a American-made reusable aircraft broke the hypersonic barrier for the first time in nearly 60-years this past December, it was not one of the aerospace industry’s prime engine makers, but a ...