Earlier tests on small versions of the concept have been successful. According to a report from SFGate, Longshot has launched apple-sized objects at speeds up to Mach 4.6. That’s well short of the ...

This one, though, takes the cake. It’s a gun designed to send very small payloads into space on a suborbital trajectory. The gun itself is an 8-inch bore, 45-foot long monster of an artillery piece.

It is still considered to be the only gun ever fired in space, and it was fired a total of three times over the course of the space station’s brief life. Spacecraft have been used in military ...

Oxfordshire-based startup First Light Fusion has announced a big shift in its nuclear gun strategy. The company will no ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Just in case things get ugly and the world erupts into a real Star Wars, yes, it is possible to shoot a gun in space. Here's everything that would happen to you ...

IT sounds like the plot of some sci-fi or action movie; astronauts heading into space with a special gun packed away among all their gear. Indeed, it has been claimed that Russian astronauts ...

Authorities are asking for the public’s help locating a suspect accused of pointing a gun at a 911 caller following a road ...