China has launched a ballistic missile into the South Pacific, drawing international criticism from many countries in the ...
Normally, the high-speed particles are considered a space hazard that satellite engineers and human exploration missions need ...
For many, the mention of nuclear energy evokes images of irradiated lakes, mutant three-eyed fish and glowing green ...
If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...
Although the 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, there’s currently no way to verify that satellites aren’t ...
A satellite carrying a nuclear weapon would not just menace rival spacecraft. It could scramble parts of modern life on Earth ...
This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration ...
Recent technological advances have brought the president’s goals a bit closer to reality. By Claire Brown President Trump wants to quadruple nuclear power production in the United States by 2050. To ...
BOHR's primary mission is to test a different kind of power source in orbit. The CubeSat is carrying City Labs' "NanoTritium" ...
China’s navy has test-launched a long-range ballistic missile from one of its nuclear-powered submarines in the South Pacific ...
MIT has published a feasibility study proposing a satellite-based sensor system to detect nuclear weapons in orbiting ...