The Chernobyl nuclear plant has suffered a power failure that could result in the release of a radioactive cloud that could stretch to other parts of Europe, the State Service of Special ...

A mysterious cloud containing radioactive ruthenium-106, which moved across Europe in 2017, is still bothering Europe's radiation protection entities. German researchers now found out that the cloud ...

President Donald Trump announced he is ordering the U.S. to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering what this would ...

The solar system is currently embedded deep within the Local Bubble, a region of relatively low density stretching for a thousand light-years across. It was carved millions of years ago by a chain of ...

Nevada is the U.S. government's go-to place for nuclear weapons tests. Trump's plan to revive them "immediately" faces big opposition in Nevada.

Catch rockets with a helicopter? Yep, that's the plan Now that Blue Origin and SpaceX have shown that reusable rocket boosters are feasible, companies are scrambling to develop their own recovery ...

FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Creating the deadliest bomb in the world and having humans fly through the radioactive cloud and debris moments after the detonation was the focus of a 1956 experiment ...

FILE - An instrument for detecting radiation is seen on a map of the New York area during an exercise to intercept radioactive "dirty bombs" in waterways near New York, Thursday, April 7, 2011. Dirty ...

The U.S. Department of Energy demolished a building using explosives last month at the highly contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a former nuclear and rocket test site in the hills above LA.

Moscow — Russia's state weather and environment monitoring agency on Monday released new details about a brief spike in radioactivity following a mysterious explosion at the navy's testing range that ...

A radioactive plume of water in the Pacific Ocean from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, which was crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, will likely reach U.S. coastal waters starting in 2014, ...