Blue Origin experienced an "anomaly" during a static test on Thursday night at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Blue Origin said all of its people were confirmed and that there were no ...

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

Built as a backup plutonium core for a possible third atomic bomb against Japan, the object later known as the Demon Core ...

A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.

Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

World War II was not just a battle of soldiers, tanks, and aircraft. Behind ...