Aerospace & Defense
Nothing was holding one of America's most advanced weather satellites to its fixture but gravity and friction — because another crew had borrowed the...
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Nothing was holding one of America's most advanced weather satellites to its fixture but gravity and friction — because another crew had borrowed the...
Summary and Key Points: In February 1961, the Soviet Union launched Venera 1, the first spacecraft ever sent from Earth toward another planet. Built...
The internet version says 24 missiles and 192 warheads. The verified version is smaller — and still beyond most nations' entire arsenals. Walk through...
$175 billion, $185 billion, or $1.2 trillion — the price of Golden Dome depends on a question Washington hasn't answered: which war is the...
The Soviets built it, SALT II banned it by name, and Moscow gave it up. In 2021, China flew it again — with a...
In July 1994, astronomers watched something no human had ever seen: a comet colliding with a planet. Shoemaker-Levy 9 had already been torn apart...
OSIRIS-REx flew hundreds of millions of miles to do something NASA had never done: bring a piece of an asteroid home. The target was...
Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever...
China's naval drone force is early but growing fast, and its sharpest edge isn't firepower. Cheap, expendable craft, wave-powered surface drones that loiter for...
Russia’s Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile is proving highly effective at evading advanced Western air defenses like Patriot. Through high-speed maneuvering, decoys, electronic countermeasures, and...