In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make ...

The Moon has inspired myths, guided sailors, and lit up our nights for thousands of years. But during one of the most intense ...

US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.

Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, recently made waves when he publicly discussed a major threat that America's newest military branch recently war-gamed — that of an adversary ...