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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A top-secret Russian satellite, which US officials have linked to the country's nuclear anti-satellite weapons program, is ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The secretive Russian satellite in space that U.S. officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapon program has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably ...

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 ...

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.

There's no evidence that the US Space Force has demonstrated kinetic space-based anti-satellite weapons, and Pentagon officials have roundly criticized the possibility of Russia placing a nuclear ...

dimazel – stock.adobe.com Although not a weapon itself, Cosmos 2553 was believed to aid Russia’s development of a nuclear anti-satellite weapon. The Cosmos is one of dozens of Russia’s ...

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 ...