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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...