U.S. officials have reportedly warned that Moscow could launch an anti-satellite nuclear weapon into orbit this year, a potentially devastating capability that sent shockwaves nationwide though ...

Moscow still needs to complete its work on an anti-satellite weapon with nuclear technology — the threat flagged this week in intelligence circulating on Capitol Hill. And it is not clear Moscow ...

In February, President Vladimir Putin and then-Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu denied US claims that Russia was working on a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon. The deployment of nuclear ...

The United States has developed anti-satellite (ASAT) missile technology to step ahead in the future warfare. In 1985, US ...

Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had destroyed one of its old satellites in a test of an anti-satellite weapon. Wendy Whitman Cobb is a space security researcher. She explains what ...

Before revelations about Russia’s development of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon, there had been indications of global recognition that the use of certain space weapons was bad for everyone.

The 5-year-old U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to confront what is becoming its priority challenge: the threat of anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) from foreign adversaries, including Russia and ...

A Russian space satellite that U.S. officials tie to its nuclear anti-satellite weapon program seems to be spinning uncontrollably and may no longer be functioning, Reuters reported on April 25 ...