Alan Boyle

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture has donated a New Shepard rocket booster, plus a New Shepard capsule, to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Could microbes endure just beneath the surface of Mars, in layers of dusty ice exposed to just the right amount of sunlight?

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The biggest applause line at a Bellevue Chamber event focusing on the Seattle area's space industry came when attention was paid to a down-to-earth topic: housing affordability for the industry's workers.

Researchers have found new ways to use cloud computing to accelerate computational chemistry, including quantum and AI-based applications.

Online tools are fueling an arms race between the purveyors of disinformation and those who defend against it. (Credit: Skorzewiak / Bigstock)

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture successfully sent a brand-new New Shepard rocket ship on an uncrewed shakedown cruise today, with the aim of increasing the company's capacity to take people on suborbital space trips.

Will Boeing back away from space projects? Are Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin making political calculations? Such is the stuff of speculation.

Three weeks after University of Washington biochemist David Baker won a Nobel Prize , the latest venture that's spun off from his lab — Archon

The National Reconnaissance Office has selected Starfish Space and two other companies to evaluate new technologies for space operations.

Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. says it has filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition as part of a court-supervised process that will lead to its purchase through a public auction.