Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. This technology is very far out–in miles and years. A pair of ...

Imagine how much damage a lump of metal might do if dropped onto a target from a great height. Now imagine the metal is tungsten — one of the heaviest rare metals — and it's dropped from space, miles ...

What if war moved beyond Earth? Kinetic bombardment - dropping tungsten rods from space - could become the next frontier of military power. Here’s how it works and why it’s feared. The Atlantic ...

The Outer Space Treaty, a United Nations treaty ratified in the mid-1960s, prohibits signatories from placing “nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or ...

The Outer Space Treaty, a United Nations treaty ratified in the mid-1960s, prohibits signatories from placing “nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or ...

Among the weapons the Air Force might deploy are space-based lasers, a space plane capable of delivering a half-ton payload anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, and the “rods from god.” The rods are ...