In 2024, a U.S. government official warned that Russia could be developing a new satellite designed to carry nuclear weapons into space. The statement followed the launch of a suspicious Russian ...

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

Scientists have proposed a satellite that could detect hidden nuclear weapons in space by sensing neutrons naturally emitted from uranium. Here's how it could help enforce an important space treaty.

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...

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 ...

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: ...

The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in orbit—but we currently have no way to verify that satellites aren't carrying them.

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 ...

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