The United States remains “unacceptably vulnerable” to a dangerous form of escalation by Russia in space, including the possibility of a nuclear detonation that could cripple satellites and disrupt ...

Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries have detected Russia developing a "zone-effect" anti-satellite weapon aimed at Elon Musk's Starlink network, which could scatter hundreds of thousands of ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

US government has privately informed lawmakers and European allies about Russia's alleged plans to deploy a space weapon with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Depositphotos.com Thousands of satellites orbiting the planet support military communications, emergency response, ...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim ...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim ...