The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans any country from placing nuclear weapons in orbit, but the agreement has never included a ...

When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Outer Space Treaty in 1967, both nations agreed not to place nuclear ...

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: ...

Earlier this month, a small satellite built by City Labs was launched to low Earth orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare mission. The successful launch marked a milestone for commercial ...

An MIT scientist has proposed a method to find out if a satellite orbiting the Earth contains a nuclear weapon, making it the only publicly known way to detect weapons of mass destruction on ...

HOUSTON—An MIT-led simulation and modeling effort offers a potential space-based method for detecting nuclear weapons in Earth orbit. Such weapons are a violation of the Outer Space Treaty (OST), ...

Politics and space are two realms that, typically, orbit separate spheres. But GOP Rep. Mike Turner, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has just sent a signal flare across both territories, ...

This series, Space in Focus, explores key space trends, challenges, and policy issues that will confront the next administration as well as offers recommendations for how to navigate them. Regardless ...

Learn how an MIT physicist’s proposed detector could help verify whether satellites are secretly carrying nuclear material in space. If an inspector wants to verify a nuclear treaty on Earth, they can ...

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog’s board on Wednesday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in ...

A satellite carrying a nuclear weapon would not just menace rival spacecraft. It could scramble parts of modern life on Earth. That is the threat behind a new proposal from MIT professor Areg ...