Tyres stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warramunga facility, about 500 kilometres north – a ...

The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.

In 1965, four years before Neil Armstrong even set foot on the Moon, the SNAP-10A became the first and only US nuclear-powered satellite, operating in Earth orbit for 43 days. Since then, nuclear ...

A new facility will be built on Joint Base Charleston to house a nuclear simulator. Like a cockpit simulator that trains airplane pilots to hands crises and various scenarios, the simulator trains ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hiratsuka City Museum) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Musi ...

The Jujutsu Kaisen manga is amazing, but there are some things that the anime did way better.

The BBC visits the Iranian capital for the first time since authorities used unprecedented force to put down protests last ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation suggests that a nuclear option could be a viable last resort to avert an ...

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And she's not alone. A full 60% of baby boomers aged 61 to 65 are not on track to have enough money to retire.