Air Force Secretary Troy Meink announced the on-orbit space control weapons at a conference Monday, Sept. 14. The revelation is seen as a message of deterrence to adversaries like China and Russia.

Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed, in an extraordinary public ...

The United States Space Force (USSF) is the sixth, smallest, and newest military service branch, created in 2019 from the Department of the Air Force. It consists of about 9,400 active-duty members, ...

Members of the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron render a salute during a change of command ceremony at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, June 15, 2026. During the ceremony, Lt. Col. Keturah Onukwuli ...

As humanity ventures further into the cosmos, the demand for reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy sources has never been more critical. This journal collection, "Photovoltaics in Space ...

ENSURING AMERICAN SPACE SUPERIORITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order that sets a bold vision for an America First space policy, ensuring the United States leads the world in ...

Section 1. Purpose. Superiority in space is a measure of national vision and willpower, and the technologies Americans develop to achieve it contribute substantially to the Nation’s strength, security ...

Two NASA astronauts who flew up to the International Space Station in a Boeing Starliner capsule for a round trip that was supposed to last just over a week will be stuck in space for closer to a year ...

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

A splashy California-based launch company named Relativity Space shared a photo of sleek-looking rocket hardware on its social media channels last week. The image featured an impressively large ...

NASA will call on SpaceX to bring home two astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station since early June after their Boeing spacecraft ran into several problems midflight, the ...

President Donald J. Trump transformed American space policy during his first term. He reestablished the National Space Council to coordinate national space strategy. He issued a series of important ...