Triggering a nuclear explosion in low-Earth orbit could unleash devastating effects on Earth, disrupting phone towers, internet connectivity, GPS services, banking systems, and power grids if a ...

For decades, Americans speculated about the Soviet moon program, but no one had grasped just how close they had come to putting a man on the moon until late 1991, when suddenly the USSR collapsed. As ...

Shortly after vetoing a U.S.-Japan United Nations resolution to ban nuclear weapons in outer space, Russia introduced its own proposal to ban placing any weapons in space, for all time.

Thomas-Greenfield said the world is just beginning to understand “the catastrophic ramifications of a nuclear explosion in space.” ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely ...

The resolution would have called on all countries not to develop or deploy nuclear arms or other weapons of mass destruction in space, as banned under a 1967 international treaty that included the ...

The U.N. Security Council is set to vote Wednesday, April 24, 2024, on a resolution announced by Thomas-Greenfield, calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space.