Half a century ago, on Nov. 1, 1963, the Soviet Union launched the first prototype of the "killer" satellite—what we would call today an antisatellite system, or ASAT. Officially announced as ...

It's small. It's nimble. It’s doing strange things over our heads. And Russia's new Kosmos 2521 satellite has the potential to bring the world’s economy to its knees. “We don’t know for ...

You may have heard that Russian President Vladimir Putin takes an interest in exotic and impressive missile technologies. At his address to the Russian Federal Assembly last month, Putin raised ...

The Pentagon said that the Russian counter-space weapon was put into the "same orbit" as a US government satellite - and is likely tracking the space device already. The Russian space object ...

A hunter-killer satellite represents a new kind of threat. In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2018, researchers from the Australian National University describe a hunter ...

Now, thanks to years of development by governments and private companies, outer space satellite servicing is becoming a reality — and a business. Just this month, the US Defense Advanced ...

Nearly 70 years have passed since the onset of the space age with the launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. And in that time, the heavens above have become cluttered with thousands ...

Turner is flagging a "serious" but "medium-to-long term" threat, so there's no "cause for panic," said Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. White House national ...