Efficient Enterprise Engineering, a Tempe-based data management company, said it was awarded the NASA Glenn Research Center 2008 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award for its work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration nationwide and at the agency's Safety Center.

The latest partnership at Williams Gateway Airport will bring an unlikely set of new tenants to the Mesa airport — Sun Devils.

The latest partnership at Williams Gateway Airport will bring an unlikely set of new tenants to the Mesa airport — Sun Devils.

Arizona will be among the states submitting a proposal this week for an Airbus plant to manufacture aerial tankers for the U.S. Air Force.

NASA’s Destination Station: Experiences in Orbit - Astronaut Cady Coleman, pictured, discusses her experience onboard the International Space Station and the research she conducted there. She will be available for autographs and pictures after the presentation. The planetarium will also be showing a special about the International Space Station throughout the evening. Registration is required at http://tinyurl.com/nasatalk2.

Sometimes we all need to step back and see the big picture. You can do that Jan. 10 and 12 at Phoenix Symphony’s performances of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” augmented by big screen images and videos from NASA, the Hubble Telescope and Mars Rover.

The past and the future are currently colliding at Mesa’s Arizona Museum of Natural History.

Karthik Uppaluri, an eighth-grader at the Mesa Academy for Advanced Studies, has been selected to participate in a two-year internship with The JASON Project, a nonprofit subsidiary of the National Geographic Society.

University of Arizona scientists will see the results of their out-of-this-world work today, when the most powerful telescopic camera to be sent to a planet sends back its first close-up pictures of Mars.

The parent company for European aircraft maker Airbus ousted its top executive Sunday in a dramatic management shake-up following weeks of turmoil over production delays of its new superjumbo jetliner.

The Arizona Cardinals went with the obvious Tuesday in choosing a replacement site for their 2005 training camp, coming to an agreement with the city of Prescott.

Ahwatukee student graduates from USAFA

Ahwatukee student graduates from USAFA

YAVNE, ISRAEL - Rafi Yoeli has an unconventional solution to saving people from burning high-rises or rescuing soldiers trapped behind enemy lines: a flying car. Yoeli already has gotten a rudimentary vehicle off the ground — about 3 feet — and hopes to see a marketable version of his X-Hawk flying car by 2010.

A career and technical training school in west Mesa got the go-ahead from its governing board Monday to begin its expansion eastward.

WASHINGTON - Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will submit new offers for a disputed $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, and the Pentagon will pick a winner by the end of the year.

WASHINGTON - Boeing Co. said Air Force officials tilted the playing field in a $35 billion tanker contract competition toward Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co.

The two men whose bodies were discovered with the wreckage of a small airplane about 20 miles northeast of Scottsdale early Sunday were Prescott residents, according to the owner of an air flight instructional school who employed one of the men.

Martian mysteries continue to be unraveled by Arizona State University scientists.

An unmanned rotorcraft partially developed at Boeing's Mesa helicopter complex set an unofficial world endurance record earlier this month by flying for 18.7 hours straight at the Army's Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona.

Arizona was among 35 states sending representatives to a meeting Tuesday in Washington, D.C. with European aircraft maker Airbus, which is seeking proposals for a $600 million plant in the United States.

East Valley airports are bracing for a cut in anticipated state grant funding that would have helped pay for development meant to draw in more businesses and high-paying jobs.