In response to growing concerns over space-based nuclear weapons, MIT has published a feasibility ...

A study published last week in Nature Astronomy has proposed a new satellite design and technique to detect thermonuclear ...

There’s never been a good method to check for violations of the Outer Space Treaty’s prohibition of nuclear weapons in space.

The launch of City Labs' tritium-powered BOHR satellite marks a major milestone for commercial nuclear power in orbit. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT research outlines a way to detect possible nuclear weapons aboard suspicious satellites in low-Earth orbit. (CREDIT: ...

Elon Musk is trying to own it, competing powers are trying to fight in it and nobody seems to be regulating it. So who does space really belong to?

NASA visualization showing a cross-section of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) Wrapped around our world like a giant invisible ...

Weapon detection A nuclear detonation in space would destroy most of the satellites in low Earth orbit. (Courtesy: iStock/yucelyilmaz) For decades, the Outer Space Treaty (OST) has prevented any ...

It's a bird ... it's a plane ... no, it's a satellite with a nuke?! An MIT physicist reports that there is a way to determine whether a satellite orbiting Earth is secretly carrying a nuclear weapon.

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On 9 July 1962, during one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, the United States carried out one of the most ...

During the 1960s, the United States prepared to fend off nuclear missile attacks from the Soviet Union—unaware that the gravest threat was not looming across the globe, but outside of Earth’s ...