The South Korean government has threatened to shoot down a North Korean rocket due for launch in April. The rocket mission has sparked international controversy, the US labeling it a test for a long-range missile that could carry nuclear warheads. “We are studying measures such as tracking and shooting down [parts] of a North Korean missile in case it strays out of its normal trajectory”... 

US President Barack Obama looks toward North Korea from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the border between North and South Korea, March 25, 2012. US President Barack Obama has pledged to break North Korea’s “pattern of provocative behavior,” urging Pyongyang to refrain from carrying out a planned satellite launch. During a Sunday news conference in the South Korean capital of Seoul, Obama... 

Iran successfully launches new 'Navid-e Elm-o Sanat' satellite into orbit on February 3, 2012. The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat satellite into orbit following a decree by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The satellite, completely designed and built by Iranian experts, blasted into orbit late Thursday on the third day... 

The Islamic Republic of Iran successfully launches its second satellite christened Rassad (Observation) into the earth’s orbit. The satellite, which is the country’s first such imaging device, was launched by the Safir-e-Rassad satellite carrier on Wednesday thanks to Iranian aerospace scientists and experts’ endeavor, IRNA reported. Despite its 15.3-kilogram weight, which puts it... 

A NASA image of an erupting solar flare. A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days. A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. The massive sunspot,... 

This is a satellite image of construction at the Yongbyon Nuclear Site, North Korea-September 29, 2010. North Korea continues to keep the experts guessing. Last week, it promoted the third son of its current leader, Kim Jong Il, prompting speculation that he is on track to succeed his father. And now, apparently, it has commissioned construction activity at the site where it used to produce plutonium...