A ban on the rockets supply to the US heavy booster, Atlas V, which delivers weighty military communications satellites and deep space exploration vehicles into orbit, could put a stop to NASA’s space programs – not just military satellites. An unnamed representative of Russia’s Federal Space Agency told the Izvestia newspaper that the Security Council is...

The domestic partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who reported classified information leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, was detained at Heathrow Airport over the weekend and interrogated for 9 hours. UK authorities detained Greenwald’s partner, David Miranda, while he was en route from Berlin to Brazil. They...

The annual Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its peak, as observers around the world watch the space rocks streak across the sky.

Newly released images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show tons of what appears to be carbon dioxide spritzing away from Comet ISON, the dirty snowball that skywatchers hope will become the comet of the century. Spitzer’s infrared imagery indicates that 2.2 million pounds (1 million kilograms) of CO2 gas is fizzing away from the “soda-pop...

Over the past few years, Pakistan’s strategic forces, responsible for the country’s primary deterrence program, have been doing extensive research into the design and development of smart weapons i.e. nuclear weapons that have a dynamic and compact form, and which can easily be transported from one location to another.   Although a variety of warheads...

Glimpsing a meteor streaking across the night sky — one of the most visually striking natural shows on Earth — always brings a thrill. Bits of space debris are constantly bombarding the atmosphere,  but shooting stars are most visible during periodic showers, when dozens to hundreds of meteors burn up per hour. Individual shower events take their names from...