NATIONWIDE — Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams were evacuated to a SpaceX Dragon capsule on Friday as Russia’s space agency was fixing an air leak on the International Space Station, ...

A satellite carrying a nuclear weapon would not just menace rival spacecraft. It could scramble parts of modern life on Earth ...

The new space race is accelerating, but debris, failures, and crowded orbits are raising new risks around Earth.

Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation and aerospace, has passed ...

Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator who volunteered to be an astronaut for NASA’s “Women in Space Program” in 1961, has died at ...

Although the 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space, there’s currently no way to verify that satellites aren’t ...

A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by ...

GPS vulnerability is a serious national security issue and many federal departments have a role. But if this is everyone’s ...

China’s navy has test-launched a long-range ballistic missile from one of its nuclear-powered submarines in the South Pacific ...

There’s never been a good method to check for violations of the Outer Space Treaty’s prohibition of nuclear weapons in space.

In 2024, a U.S. government official warned that Russia could be developing a new satellite designed to carry nuclear weapons ...

China's military test-launched a long-range ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine in the South Pacific, drawing ...