For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.

I N THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly ...

Protecting the U.S. would require novel solutions, like orbiting missile interceptors that can destroy incoming attacks.

US president orders work on defence shield going beyond Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ programme that could trigger nuclear arms ...

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...

SpaceX, the leader in launching US spy and military satellites, has already launched missile-detection satellites for the ...

The US may soon develop an air defence system like Israel's Iron Dome to counter ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise ...

Sources embedded in Iran uncover "large scale" personnel and operations affiliated with Iran's nuclear program are now ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.