The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...

Of all the places destroyed by nuclear disasters, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion is one of the worst. Today, Chernobyl and the exclusion zone are considered one of the most ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl power plant experienced a sudden power surge, which led to a series of explosions. The ensuing fire and release of radioactive materials resulted in ...

And just as that communication breakdown presaged an explosion, so too did this one. The explosion occurred despite SpaceX assuring that what mission teams learned from the seventh flight prompted ...

SpaceX's eighth Starship flight test on Thursday resulted in an explosion, the second of such uncrewed tests since January. Nine minutes after the launch, SpaceX lost communication with the ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

One person was critically injured and a home partially collapsed after an explosion rocked a Pacoima neighborhood Thursday morning, officials said. The explosion was reported at 9:01 a.m. in the ...

This is a nova explosion." Most novas have been seen erupting once, but a rare few have been observed to explode multiple times. These are known as recurrent novas, with intervals between ...