Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist’s concept for energy web platform. It was the old Air Force commercials that claimed science fiction is what they do every ...

In a move that sounds like the wildest of science fiction, DARPA has announced its new Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program that plans to use lasers relayed by airborne platforms ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is kicking off a seven-month study of the infrastructure and baseline technology needed to develop a moon-based economy within the next ...

The Air Force and DARPA's joint development program, the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapons Concept, has completed its flight-test objectives and is transitioning to a new effort dubbed "MoHAWC," which ...

This photo taken on May 5, 2023 shows the moon during a penumbral lunar eclipse in Indonesia. (Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

Tests included wind tunnel evaluations and demonstrations of the parachute recovery and weapons-release systems.

DARPA’s Shepard program will adapt IARPA’s ultraquiet ducted-fan Great Horned Owl (left) into a stealthy hybrid-electric unmanned aircraft. Credit: DARPA Few X-planes have ever led directly to an ...