US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.

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On Pokharan anniversary, we look at how India's techno diplomacy saved it from meeting the same fate as what is happening to ...

The governor's mansion has a nuclear fallout shelter built in the 1960s that has never been used. But Gov. DeSantis once ...

An employee measures a radiation level to the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor, under the New Safe Confinement structure at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant An employee measures a ...

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

Chief of the UN nuclear watchdog on Thursday urged commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, calling for a shift away from finger-pointing and ...

On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13 returned to Earth after narrowly avoiding a deadly disaster in space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] This was supposed to be the third mission to land ...

To justify US attempts to acquire Greenland, the Trump administration has argued—among other things—that this island is essential to the operation of the “Golden Dome” missile defense system that is ...

We look at some of the major recent and upcoming science and technology achievements made possible by Indian talent.

I was in a state of near shock,” says Volodymyr Kholosha as he recalls the moment that he first saw the burnt-out reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on the day it exploded. “What I witnessed ...