(Wladimir Bulgar/NASA/Science Photo Library RF/Getty Images) High above your head, it's getting a bit crowded. In low-Earth ...

A nuclear explosion might save Earth from a deadly asteroid, but new research suggests that hitting the wrong side could make ...

Some estimates put the heart of Pickaxe Mountain as far as 100 meters (nearly 330 feet) underground—meaning even the most ...

"It is important to note that radiation belts do not distinguish between friendly and hostile spacecraft." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When an atomic bomb detonates, it produces a unique chemical environment that's nearly impossible to mimic in a lab—and amid its ...

On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya. The explosion remained unparalleled in power and changed the course of the nuclear race ...

In two separate papers published in Physical Review Letters, researchers investigated the nuclear reactions that take place inside supernovae and X-ray bursts—two of the universe's most powerful ...

Explosions rocked Iran's Isfahan, one of the most sensitive centres of the country's nuclear programme. But the timing has ...

Social media users have circulated a video reportedly broadcast by Iranian state television, providing citizens with instructions on how to act and survive in the event of a nuclear explosion, amid ...

The general public has long had a degree of wariness and uncertainty surrounding nuclear reactors, thanks largely to the fact that many associate nuclear energy with nuclear bombs. That's fair, thanks ...