NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

In 1958, the United States carried out a series of top secret nuclear detonations in outer space. Operation Argus aimed to ...

Space Ocean Corporation, a leader in orbital logistics and in-space resource delivery, has entered into a Letter of Intent with Space Nuclear Power Corporation, a pioneer in advanced space nuclear ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully test launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base early Wednesday morning. The ...

Two rocket launches took place this week from Vandenberg Space Force Base, one by SpaceX that delivered another 28 Starlink satellites to its mega-constellation of 8,800 satellites currently in orbit, ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...

As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.

President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. “We’ve halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it’s ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...