An MIT researcher has put forward a new method for detecting whether a satellite is carrying an illegal nuclear weapon.

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article by Samantha Potter J.D. ’25, an officer in the U.S. Air Force, are entirely her own and not endorsed by, or reflective of, the position of the U.S.

Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those launches weren't registered internationally? While more and more orbital objects ...

World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new study shows. The research is published in the Leiden ...

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 ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Erika Isabella Scuderi, visiting assistant professor of tax law at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, discusses her proposal for establishing taxing ...

US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a series of satellite training missions conducted by both countries in recent ...

Washington-based Starcloud launched a satellite with an Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit in early November, sending a chip into outer space that's 100 times more powerful than any GPU compute that ...

The UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) reported on Saturday a transition towards more inclusive global participation in outer space activities, with the growing involvement of ...