Israel’s Defense Ministry said it has used a laser air-defense system to shoot down drones in wartime, deploying weapons that would mark a technological leap on the battlefield.

Israel has deployed laser weapons during its ongoing war to deflect “scores” of aerial attacks, including from drones, the ...

But the main thrust of Beijing's attack is likely to come far above the Earth, in outer space—where America's satellites are ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defense concept revives a controversial, decades-old initiative whose ...

From hypersonic weapons to space threats, here’s what Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile shield aims to do, and how it could reshape US defense strategy.

Scientists and engineers at the University of Nottingham have measured the stiffness of space rock for the first time. Many meteorites are made of crystalline materials, formed under exotic conditions ...

However, space-based military-grade laser weapon systems under development could shape the battlefield anew. They would harness the fastest possible communications—via the light-speed of ...

This won’t be U.S. Marines armed with laser weapons and transported via space ship a la “Moonraker,” but a broad array of terrestrial and orbital weapons are being eyed. Nicholas Slayton is ...

Saltzman said the Space Force categorizes adversarial space weapons in six categories—three ... and directed-energy, or laser, systems, according to a Pentagon report on China's military and ...

In part that is due to “thermal blooming”, whereby the energy from a laser heats up the atmosphere ... vulnerable to anti-satellite weapons – such as the space-based nuclear weapons that ...

In part that is due to “thermal blooming”, whereby the energy from a laser heats up the atmosphere ... vulnerable to anti-satellite weapons — such as the space-based nuclear weapons that ...