Trump's push follows in the footsteps of Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a scrapped program popularly called "Star ...

President Trump’s blueprints to build a space-based missile defense shield could help him push for cuts in atomic weapons arsenals with Russia and other nuclear powers.

Space-based interceptors and "particle beams" are part of a new multi-billion-dollar Trump order to build a new U.S. missile ...

The Trump executive order notes that developing a missile defense system is part of a strategy of “peace through strength.” ...

Israel’s missile defense system is effective in close quarters. That model won’t help the U.S.

Trump’s order invokes former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative ... of existing tech and development of tools like space-based interceptors, new sensors and “non-kinetic ...

For more than 60 years, the military has launched reconnaissance, communications, and missile warning satellites into orbit.

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ultimately shelved the idea because of the massive amount of power needed to ...