Military Weapons

The United States Space Command will officially be up and running by the end of the month, Vice President Mike Pence said today (Aug. 20) at a meeting of the National Space Council.

We still don't know what the X-37B is doing up there, however.

DARPA hopes to invent ways to instantly read soldiers' minds using tools like genetic engineering of the human brain, nanotechnology and infrared beams.

At Mach 5, flight times from New York to London would be reduced from 7 hours to 90 minutes.

This is the first time that fixed-wing drones were used for radiation mapping.

Exactly what it's doing up there is unclear.

The Space Force just took a big step from sci-fi-sounding dream toward reality.

Researchers digging through naval records uncovered a strange and alarming consequence of a massive 1972 solar storm.

Archaeologists have excavated the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest near London in 1944.

Near the end of World War II, Germany launched thousands of what it called "retaliation weapons" or flying bombs at London. Here's a look at the buzz bombs and the destruction they wrought.

It was the second-ever success for the joint missile defense program, and a stunning technological accomplishment.

A drone crashed into an airplane. The results were seriously scary.

The Zephyr drone could be used for military reconnaissance and wildfire monitoring, among other activities.

Warnings of a Russian hypersonic weapon that the U.S. can't defend against may have had you running for the bomb shelter last week. But what, exactly, is this weapon, and how does it work?

The spy craft is on its fifth mission, but the U.S. Air Force is mum on what the X-37B is doing right now.

Don't do this.