On April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato — the largest battleship ever built, displacing nearly 72,000 ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships. “They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far ...

The United States Navy is making efforts that could help begin construction of the Trump-class battleship by 2028, according to reports. The Navy has also been in talks with two different vendors for ...

The Navy secretary, John Phelan, was supposed to deliver the first of the president’s ships by 2028. The timeline was nearly impossible. By Greg Jaffe and Helene Cooper Reporting from Washington ...

Project Orion envisioned a giant nuclear pulse spacecraft built not just for exploration, but for military dominance across the solar system. Backed by the US Air Force and built around atomic ...

Space Force Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess visits the Space System Command’s Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) Lab facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Credit: U.S.

As recent American military operations show, space underpins American forces’ ability to operate globally with unmatched precision. Its strategic importance is reflected in the President’s Cyber ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Sierra Space is attaching the last batch of thermal protection tiles to its Dream Chaser “Tenacity” vehicle prior to a final integrated fight software load test this summer that is ...

Purdue University announced the final two crew members for its all-Boilermaker space mission, Purdue 1. The mission, scheduled for 2027 in partnership with Virgin Galactic, will include five crew ...