Breakthrough confirms nuclear blast can deflect large asteroids headed towards Earth - Most dangerous asteroids will require vast quantities of energy akin to nuclear explosion to deflect them, scient ...

Russia, creator of the world's most powerful nuclear weapon, the Tsar Bomb, is likely set to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft aimed at sabotaging Western satellites across low Earth orbit. (Photo ...

SpaceX's 400-foot-tall Starship unexpectedly exploded while the company was preparing for an upcoming flight test from South Texas. About a week later, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum announced she ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

SpaceX thinks it knows why its newest Starship spacecraft went boom this week. The 171-foot-tall (52-meter-tall) vehicle exploded on a test stand at SpaceX's Starbase site late Wednesday night (June ...

Project Cannikin was part of a series of nuclear tests aimed at testing the effects of underground nuclear detonations that ...

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 ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it might feel like a ...

Lockheed Martin's concept for a fission surface power (FSP) system on the surface of the moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — A new NASA directive to accelerate development of a nuclear reactor ...

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is affiliated with For All Moonkind, Inc. a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on protecting cultural heritage in outer space. The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, ...

NASA plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by the 2030s to support long-term human exploration. The project aims to address power needs during lunar nights and provide high-power energy for ...