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As NASA and rival space programs eye the moon for sustained commercial activity, and the space economy edges toward what one space entrepreneur says is a trillion-dollar industry, a fundamental legal and national security question remains unsettled:

The Pentagon got the green light to employ a high-energy laser counter-drone system along the southern U.S. border after military officials reached a safety agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration, officials said Friday.

The accelerating race among global powers for dominance in space will hang in the backdrop next week as leaders from across the space industry and the U.S. military converge on Colorado for the 2026 Space Symposium.

The Pentagon has awarded a $4.76 billion contract to defense contractor Lockheed Martin to rapidly build up stockpiles of the Army's most advanced terminal anti-missile interceptors, a weapon depleted during heavy use in the war against Iran.

Israel expelled Spanish representatives from a multinational center coordinating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with officials in Jerusalem citing the "anti-Israel obsession" of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government in Madrid.

A senior Iranian official says major parts of the two-week ceasefire negotiated with President Trump must be implemented before deeper negotiations begin in Pakistan on Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a 32-hour ceasefire this weekend in connection with the upcoming Orthodox Easter holidays. The pause in hostilities with neighboring Ukraine will run from 4 p.m. on Saturday until the end of the day on April ...

Vice President J.D. Vance warned Iran not to "play" the U.S. as he departed for high-stakes negotiations in Pakistan amid a two-week ceasefire in the war.

Sen. Rick Scott says China has found a way to "weaponize" America's birthright citizenship policy by arranging to have babies born in the U.S. -- earning automatic citizenship -- then raised abroad, without American values.

Cliff Beek, an entrepreneur and leader in the futuristic world of space infrastructure, joins the show for an eye-opening discussion on the fast-evolving intersection between space and business.