The three satellites, designated Kosmos 2581, 2582 and 2583, launched on a Soyuz-2.1V rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome early ...

The United States has raised a big red flag as Russia is working on a satellite that might carry nuclear space weapons. This ...

A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International ...

The US claims a newly launched Russian satellite is a space weapon from the Kremlin meant to take out other satellites. A Defense Department spokesman briefly discussed the alleged Russian space ...

Russia is no stranger to shady operations in space. In August 2022, Russia launched another mysterious satellite, Kosmos 2558 ...

US military officials believe Russia and China are aggressively testing new offensive space capabilities, pointing to a ...

A trio of secretive Russian military satellites have released a mystery object into orbit, reigniting fears that Moscow is developing a space-based platform to launch missiles or nuclear weapons ...

Saltzman said the Space Force categorizes adversarial space weapons in six categories—three that are space-based and three ...

Massive investments required to develop new ICBMs and nuclear weapons so that the Soviet military could achieve strategic parity with the United States siphoned funds away from the space program.

It remains the only known weapon discharged in space, thought not the only weapon brought into space. Soviet cosmonauts once carried triple-barrel shotguns as part of an emergency kit in the event ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...