As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...

I'm afraid we are actually starting to see an arms race dynamics already,’ Izumi Nakamitsu tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, ...

Three Chinese astronauts have been forced to extend their six-month stay in space over concerns their return ship may have been hit by debris. Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie were due to return ...

Data show that unidentified lights in archival astronomy images were 68% more likely to be imaged 24 hours after a nuclear weapons test. In the 1950s, mysterious flashes of light were captured on ...

President Donald Trump unveiled initial plans for the "state-of-the-art" Golden Dome in May, which he said would be up and ...

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon's first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...

In a region already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing.

The TV-8 was meant to be an amphibious tank with a 90mm main gun, powered by an onboard nuclear reactor, designed and built ...

China's Long March 2F rocket, carrying three astronauts for the Shenzhou 20 manned space mission, heads for a space station, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwestern China, ...