Rumors of a Russian space nuke, along with other satellite-targeting weapons, have made geopolitical tensions extend into ...

The Russian space weapon may simply use nuclear power to provide ... However, if the weapon is capable of knocking satellites out of orbit, these objects could fall to the planet’s surface ...

Technically, a space weapon is defined as one which completes at least one full orbit of the earth, so neither of the new weapons actually violates the treaty. Even so, they probably represent ...

Space weapons the U.S. has heretofore ruled out could play important roles in enhancing the nation’s overall military superiority and ability to deter hostile actions in space and other domains.

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...

sticking to their preferance for a new treaty that would prohibit any kind of weapon in space. There may be a way to navigate out of this diplomatic impasse, with U.S.-allied governments taking ...

Sources embedded in Iran uncover "large scale" personnel and operations affiliated with Iran's nuclear program are now ...

failed when it spun out of control and crashed into the lunar surface. The failure underscored the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space program. A nuclear weapon orbiting in space would seem ...

The resulting surge of energy from the huge radioactive explosion would knock out critical infrastructure ... working on plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space via satellite.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia's space agency after a tenure of less than three years ...

Was it a worrisome weapons program being advanced ... “There’s not a lot of information out there,” said Victoria Samson, a space policy expert at the Secure World Foundation in Broomfield, Colorado, ...