A heat dome occurs when a large area of high pressure in the upper atmosphere acts as a reservoir that traps heat and humidity, said Ricky Castro, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Illinois.

Summer will make a dramatic entrance in the U.S. this week with a heat dome that will bring stifling temperatures and uncomfortable humidity to millions.

The administration expects Golden Dome to cost $175 billion over the next three years—a bill too big for the Space Force to front out of its own budget.

Credit: DoD WASHINGTON — From what is known so far about the Trump administration’s missile defense initiative known as Golden Dome, its backbone will be space-based sensors.

President Trump said on Tuesday that Canada is “considering” his offer of joining the United States as the 51st state in exchange for no-cost protection by the proposed “Golden Dome ...

Trump dangled the proverbial carrot in a May 27 post on his social media platform Truth Social, writing that they could either pay billions to join his proposed "Golden Dome" missile defense ...

Golden Dome has strong and powerful allies in the defence contracting community and the growing defence technology arena, many of whom have been preparing for Trump’s big move into space weaponry.

Canada’s national security would benefit from participation in U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defence plan, policy experts say. But it will likely take years — if ...

Trump’s Tuesday statement was aspirational. “The Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they’re launched ...

But the Golden Dome would need to defend a far larger area – the land mass of the contiguous US alone is more than 350 times the size of Israel – from a wider variety of sophisticated missiles.

After watching President Trump announce plans for a $175 billion “Golden Dome” missile-defense system, I took the liberty of preparing him a speech.