If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...
During the height of the Cold War, atmospheric nuclear testing became increasingly restricted, but the United States Navy ...
NASA visualization showing a cross-section of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific ...
Sun’ is being developed in Nottinghamshire as UK hopes to lead world in nuclear fusion power Joe Pinkstone joined The Telegraph in 2021. He is recognised for making complex scientific data accessible ...
Into the second month of the US-Iran war, the conflict in the Gulf continues to escalate—airstrikes widening, oil markets reacting, and pressure mounting around the Strait of Hormuz. But beyond the ...
The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...
The US carried out the Starfish Prime test by detonating a 1.4-megaton thermonuclear bomb about 400 kilometres above Earth.
China said US claims that it was carrying out nuclear explosive tests were baseless, and it accused Washington of being the main cause of uncertainty over the global nuclear order, according to a ...