NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— A new Space Force planning document predicting future enemy trends through 2040, designed to help officials better acquire key technologies and prioritize missions, should be released later this year, the service’s top uniformed ...

U.S. Space Force guardians participate in Moonlight Defender, an exercise designed to focus on refining the defensive and offensive skill sets of cyber guardians. (1st Lt. Charles Rivezzo/U.S. Air Force) The Space Force expects to have a more advanced ...

It has been nearly six years since the United States Space Force was established, when President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020 into law. The sixth and newest branch of the U.S. Armed Forces was also the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—The guardians manning screens in the mission-ops center here oversaw the launch of five types of rockets in April, a new record that involved NASA’s Artemis II, the first reused New Glenn booster, and a Falcon 9 lofting the ...

Naming weapon systems to give insight into its purpose or the branch’s culture is not new within the U.S. military. (DVIDS) The U.S. Space Force released names of space weapon systems to better link guardians with the force’s specific culture and ...

President Donald Trump announces the Golden Dome missile defense shield alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sen. Kevin Cramer, and Sen. Dan Sullivan in the Oval Office in May 2025. A revolution has been unfolding in military space—quiet yet ...

A generation ago, when former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin promoted the mantra of a “faster, better, cheaper” approach to the agency’s science missions, critics often joked that NASA could only pick two. That’s no longer the case. NASA is finding ...