On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya. The explosion remained unparalleled in ...

Netanyahu shared an AI-generated nuclear blast over Tel Aviv before Israel's election, drawing opposition accusations of ...

Eight hundred nuclear explosions were calculated to put one Project Orion spacecraft into Earth orbit. The proposed vehicle ...

Scientists Use 3D Simulations to Explore How a Nuclear Explosion Could Deflect or Destroy an Asteroid Threatening Earth ...

A Nuclear Engineer Explains Just How Powerful a Nuclear Explosion Can Be. Explore the science behind nuclear explosions and ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared an AI-generated image depicting a nuclear explosion over Tel Aviv on Sunday, ...

The reasons behind carrying out Starfish Prime were both Cold War competition and science. While the spectacular light show captured public attention, the most significant effects of Starfish Prime ...

We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn was torn open at 5:29 am on 16 July 1945, it was, without a doubt, a pivotal moment in humanity's ...

Starfish Prime was a US nuclear weapons test carried out on July 9, 1962 The world's largest nuclear explosion in space took place 64 years ago. On July 9, 1962, the United States carried out the ...

Understanding the nuances of nuclear fallout—whether from a nuclear weapon or accident—could help save countless lives. A new study from scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have ...

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 ...