Rumors of a Russian space nuke, along with other satellite-targeting weapons, have made geopolitical tensions extend into ...

The Kremlin dismissed the head of Russia's space agency on Thursday after a tenure of less than three years scarred by the ...

Vladimir Putin has dismissed Roscosmos chief Yuri Borisov, who led the Russian space agency for a turbulent 2.5-year stretch.

Yury Borisov, 68, has been removed as head of the Russian Space Agency, known as Roscomos, after a number of humiliating ...

On July 9, 1962, the night sky above the Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii to New Zealand, suddenly became illuminated by brilliant light ... though the statement was quickly linked to the possibility of a ...

For example, most spacecraft aren’t sufficiently radiation-hardened to withstand a nuclear blast, even from far away. Following talk of this potential new Russian weapon, the U.S. Space Force has been ...

The new project will replace the ageing International Space Station (ISS ... last major agreement between Russia and the U.S. that limits their number of nuclear weapons, each side has accused ...

Russia slammed Donald Trump’s plan for an ‘Iron Dome’ missile defence shield in a nuclear weapons space war row. Moscow said the move was designed to weaken ... Putin hit back attacking the Ukrainian ...

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also stressed that Russia saw the “Iron Dome” plan as confirmation of a US intention to turn space into a theatre of military confrontation.