Somewhere above Earth, natural radiation may be doing what spies cannot: probing satellites for hidden nuclear weapons. Although the 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, there’s ...

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: ...

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For almost 60 years, the world’s most powerful militaries have agreed not to put nuclear weapons into orbit around Earth. But the Outer Space Treaty (OST), ratified in 1967 by the U.S. and Soviet ...

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), ...

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 ...

Technicians joined the Telstar satellite to the third stage of the Delta Rocket in July 1962. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images In August 1962, British instrumental band the Tornados released a song ...

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 ...