The head of Space Command has called for the United States to develop what he calls “space fires”—a clear reference to some kind of weapons system. General Stephen Whiting stated that the U ...

Space Force is not the stuff of science fiction, with manned spacecraft taking off and doing battle in orbit, but it is an acknowledgment by the United States that this new realm needs renewed ...

DENVER—The US Space Force lacks the full range of space weapons China and Russia are adding to their arsenals, and military leaders say it's time to close the gap.

The United States military has once again emphasized the importance of the country deploying "weapons in space," given the progress China and Russia have made in the area. O post U.S. military ...

A Space Force patch. The United States Space Force was established in 2019, but it began its development as far back as 1954. During the Cold War, the United States Space Command was established ...

Check out the top 10 space weapon concepts ... U.S. Air Force . While space has been an ... several of the nation's rocket scientists were picked up by the Soviet Union and the United States.

The Outer Space Treaty, a United Nations treaty ratified in the mid-1960s, prohibits signatories from placing “nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial ...

The United States, Russia and China are all developing weapons to attack and destroy one another’s space assets.

The United States believes Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon whose detonation could disrupt everything from military communications to phone-based ride services, a ...

Unidentified sources in the United States say Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon but President Vladimir Putin said he opposes nuclear weapons in space and Moscow has ...