"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

Armen Sarkisyan, the founder of a separatist battalion fighting in eastern Ukraine, died after an explosion in an apartment ...

I’d like to explore the forgetfulness of humanity and the time the United States accidentally misplaced a hydrogen bomb — oops.

The NNSA has recently given the public a rare glimpse into one of the secret nuclear labs where America used to test its ...

New York City has been simulated as the location of a nuclear bomb explosion, with a map showing the catastrophic damage that ...

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

The Navy bomb team were called to destroy the unexploded ... it was found and placed in a nearby field where a controlled explosion was carried out. An Isle of Wight resident discovered the ...

At least 70 people have died after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and exploded, authorities said, with some of the people having died because they were trying to collect spilled fuel. At least ...

In three seconds, it turned into this. Imagine the effect that the nuclear explosion had on human beings,” explains this 84-year-old Japanese man, a survivor of the atomic bomb, in an interview with ...

The Cuban government said Wednesday that 13 soldiers had died after an explosion a week earlier in an arms depot in the country's east. Cuba's Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a ...

China, which is one of the nine nuclear-armed nations, detonated its first atomic bomb in 1964. While the spokesperson asserted that China "never engages in arms race[s] with anyone," the Pentagon ...