The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

AN asteroid the size of a football pitch cannot be ignored, an expert has warned after its chances of hitting Earth increased ...

SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth.

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

WASHINGTON WAS abuzz on February 14th with news of a mysterious Russian space weapon. Mike Turner, chairman of the House intelligence committee, urged the White House to declassify intelligence on a ...

"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

Russia’s potential space nuke—or whatever it is—is just the latest military technology countries ... as it’s hit by debris from a blown-up Russian satellite. The real-world explosion took place in a ...

In 1980, a routine maintenance mishap led to a catastrophic missile explosion in Damascus, Arkansas, nearly triggering a nuclear disaster. This documentary explores the events, the aftermath, and the ...

The resulting surge of energy from the huge radioactive explosion would knock out ... Russia was working on plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space via satellite. Then in early December ...

It created significant nuclear fallout that contaminated ... recognized by the U.S. military as the boundary of space. Can we make an explosion bigger than a thermonuclear bomb?