The U.S. Department of Defense wants to test a directed energy weapon in space, one that it hopes will someday destroy ballistic missiles moments after launch. The weapon, a so-called neutral particle ...

Beijing (SCMP): Particle beams – streams of atoms or subatomic particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light – have been the holy grail of space warfare. The idea is simple: fire a tightly ...

China recently built a space-based power system prototype for a potential satellite-based particle beam weaponry, the South China Morning Post reported Saturday. The idea of particle beams is simple: ...