During the Cold War, the US military experimented with placing nuclear weapons on board missiles that themselves ran on ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered last year, continues to capture the interest of astronomers. Initially, the probability of it hitting our planet was estimated at 3%, a figure which later dropped to 1.2% ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Federal investigators say 24,000–28,000 pounds of explosives detonated at Tennessee’s AES plant, killing16 workers in one of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Roughly 12,550 miles above Earth, a constellation of U.S. global positioning satellites orbits the planet. GPS satellites also carry a sophisticated system designed to detect above ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' famed "Doomsday Clock" is the closest it has ever been to midnight. “Without clear and sustained efforts from world leaders to prevent nuclear war, there can be ...

Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, thanks to a new design that utilizes energy from the nuclear fission of ...