Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot is one of the most radioactive objects on Earth. Just five minutes near it can be fatal, making it a chilling reminder of nuclear disaster.

Wave power is as simple as its name suggests- creating electricity by harnessing the motion of the ocean (or other bodies of ...

The Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been left to decay for nearly four decades after it was abandoned overnight after the 1986 ...

The Independent. He was previously at The Daily Beast, where he broke national stories involving rogue CIA officers, corrupt defense contractors, malevolent Airbnb hosts, and was the first reporter to ...

A black fungus that's growing in Chernobyl's infamous No. 4 nuclear reactor is absorbing some of its radiation as part of its ...

However, a deep freeze, thanks to the polar vortex dipping down from Siberia, is bringing an even harsher arctic blast to million Americans this week. Maps show what to expect as the cold front ...

“Most people think of the Chernobyl nuclear accident as a radiological ... causing a dramatic explosion that demolished buildings and released deadly radiation into the atmosphere.

Dean Olson, who captured footage of the Starship debris while in the area, told Business Insider that he heard the sound of constant "thunder" for about a minute after witnessing the explosion.

“Most people think of the Chernobyl nuclear accident as a radiological disaster in an abandoned corner ... Scientists have been studying dog populations near the nuclear power plant which suffered a ...

But the triumph was short-lived when teams lost contact with the upper stage vehicle. SpaceX later confirmed it had undergone "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company's euphemism for an explosion.

SpaceX called the event a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," a tongue-in-cheek term denoting a rocket explosion, "during its ascent burn," in a statement posted to X-formerly-Twitter. "Teams will ...