A week into office, United States President Donald Trump surprised the world and many of his policymakers by announcing his ...

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.

President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

The first Trump administration floated a space weapon concept in March 2018: a neutral particle beam in space. But it ...

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Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

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

These four top U.S. defense companies likely will be involved in constructing and implementing the Iron Dome missile defense ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A California-based startup led by former SpaceX executives announced Jan. 29 it has raised $100 million to ...

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump this week ordered work on the most ambitious missile shield in US history, one designed to destroy ...