AI drone may have 'hunted down' and killed soldiers in Libya with no human input By Charles Q. Choi A UN report suggests that AI drones attacked human targets without any humans consulted prior to the strike.
US military picks 3 companies to test nuclear propulsion above low-Earth orbit By Elizabeth Howell The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has picked three big space companies for the first phase of a larger project to test nuclear propulsion above low Earth orbit by 2025.
3 Russian nuclear submarines simultaneously punch through Arctic ice By Tom Metcalfe Here's why the naval maneuver is so tricky.
US Air Force says it will test bizarre 'hypersonic' weapon this month By Rafi Letzter At some point in the next few weeks, the U.S. plans to fire an extreme, hypersonic weapon. The question remains: What's the point?
Here's everything we know about the secretive spy satellite launching tonight By Rafi Letzter The U.S. government is putting something big and secret in orbit tonight (Sept 30). Here's the little we can glean from public information.
'Ghost Army' in WWII used inflatable tanks to fool the Nazis and win the war By Mindy Weisberger A secret U.S. Army tactical unit called the "Ghost Army" tricked German forces during WWII with fake military displays that were deceptively real.
Russia just tested anti-satellite space weapon, US claims By Rafi Letzter The U.S. government says Russia tested an anti-satellite space weapon July 15. Russia says it was an inspector satellite. Nothing was destroyed.
Pentagon should release UFO report, Senate intelligence committee argues By Rafi Letzter The US Senate intelligence committee plans to impose new rules on how the Department of Defense (DOD) shares information about UFOs, and to demand a public report on what the DOD knows so far.
DARPA's hypersonic 'Glide Breaker' could blast missile threats out of the sky By Elizabeth Howell Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop "enabling technologies" for DARPA's Glide Breaker program under a newly announced contract, which is worth up to $19.6 million.
Wreckage of lost American WWII planes finally found, in a Pacific lagoon By Mindy Weisberger During a pivotal World War II battle, three U.S. aircraft and their seven crewmen were lost at sea. The planes were recently located in a lagoon in the Pacific Ocean.
US military's 'Jetson' laser can ID your unique heartbeat hundreds of feet away By Mindy Weisberger Heartbeat-scanning lasers created by the U.S. military can ID your cardiac 'fingerprints' from hundreds of feet away.
Why Didn't the Allies Bomb Auschwitz? By Mindy Weisberger A new PBS documentary probes the deliberation behind the historic decision.
Identity of Fourth Soviet Spy Who Stole US Atomic Bomb Secrets Finally Revealed By Mindy Weisberger Historians recently uncovered the name of a fourth spy who delivered U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets in the 1940s.
Rock Star's Company Seeks UFOs, Finds Military Contract By Mindy Weisberger A private company that researches UFOs has a new contract with the U.S. government.
This 'Doomsday' Plane Was Designed to Survive a Nuclear Attack. A Bird Just Took It Down. By Jeanna Bryner This Navy craft is meant to communicate with nuclear forces in the event of a nuclear war. And a bird strike just grounded it.
Why You Shouldn't Worry About China’s New 'Hypersonic' Nuclear Death Machine By Rafi Letzter China already had the power to kill you with nukes. This doesn't change anything, but it could fan the flames of an arms race.
X-37B Military Space Plane Breaks Record on Latest Mystery Mission By Mike Wall The robotic X-37B has been circling Earth for nearly 719 days on its latest mystery mission, which is known as Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5).
New US Space Command Will Launch Next Week, VP Pence Says By Hanneke Weitering 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.
Skywatcher Captures Rare Image of Mysterious X-37B Military Space Plane By Leonard David We still don't know what the X-37B is doing up there, however.
The Government Is Serious About Creating Mind-Controlled Weapons By Edd Gent DARPA hopes to invent ways to instantly read soldiers' minds using tools like genetic engineering of the human brain, nanotechnology and infrared beams.
