Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

France is moving ahead with plans to develop space-based laser weapons capable of disabling or damaging satellites from Earth—or directly from orbit. Tucked deep within the 2026 national budget ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold that military planners have talked about for decades: it is now firing a shipboard laser powerful enough to burn through metal and destroy drones in flight. The ...

Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...