Editor Huaxia Published by Xinhua, 17 September 2026 BEIJING, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Moon should not become a new battlefield. Preventing the militarization of space must remain a basic principle as humanity ventures beyond Earth. The U.S. "Star Wars" program of the 1980s once raised the prospect of an
By Thomas Novelly, Published by Defense One, 16 September 2026 Days after orbital weapons were revealed, Gen. Dan Caine ups the scope of the military’s desired reach. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— The U.S.military’s top uniformed leader says U.S. forces must be ready for war near or possibly even on the moon,
Image credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman Published by Channel News Asia, 16 September 2026 MOSCOW: Russia believes there is still time to prevent an arms race in space by drawing up a legally binding international treaty to outlaw the deployment of offensive weapons there and called on the United States and other
By Abdul Rahman, Published by Breakthrough News, 16 September 2026 The UN Outer Space Treaty (1967) calls for the peaceful use of outer space, prohibiting the deployment of any weapon of mass destruction and preventing anyone from claiming sovereign control. After the US officially admitted it deployed weapons into outer
(Image credit: U.S. Space Force) By Oliver Holmes, Published by The Guardian, 15 September 2026 Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit The US has deployed weapons in space, the US military has confirmed, in an extraordinary public announcement that analysts
Published by RT, 15 September 2026 Moscow believes Washington’s deployment of an orbital weapons system is taking the world in the wrong direction Weapons should not be deployed in space, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, responding to the Pentagon’s announcement that the US has placed a weapons system in
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Image Source: exonews.org By Bernd Debusmann Jr and Chris Graham, Posted by the BBC, 15 September 2026 The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth's orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities. US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said the "on orbit"
By Joseph Trevithick and Howard Altman, Published by TWZ, 14 September 2026 Space Force has finally confirmed it has weapons in space and has also shared details about its "space control" mission set. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made a bombshell admission this morning, disclosing that there are
