"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." The second season of the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind shows U.S. Marines in space using M16s.

NASA's .50 caliber gas guns can fire at nearly 23,000 feet per second. The possibility of a large meteorite strike is a terrifying scenario with dramatic and deadly consequences, but a space station ...

A new story on the US - USSR space race details how the Soviets built the only gun to ever fire in space -- and why they felt they had to build it in the first place. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Several intergalactic fights have been shown on the big screen for decades. However, there seems to be a difference between the fiction and the reality of it. Guns and bullets, a prominent part of ...

On Earth, gunshots are influenced by familiar forces: gravity pulls the bullet down, air slows it due to friction, and the person shooting is held steady on the ground. Beyond the confines of our ...