Scientists and the space community have long wondered how they can defend our precious planet from such a disaster. Now, ...

A missile is reported to have exploded in its launch silo, leaving a massive crater and causing significant damage to the ...

An experiment with powerful pulses of energy sent test targets flying in a step forward for planetary defense.

It was a test of the world's first nuclear bomb called Trinity, and it was the turning point for one of the most dangerous races in human history. The nuclear story actually begins a few years ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

Pyongyang's missile tests, relationship with Russia and continuous pursuit of nuclear weapons have aroused concern from officials in both Washington and Seoul.

Efforts to end nuclear tests date to 1963, when the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty ... deter the spread of nuclear weapons. Both Russia and the U.S. say ...

It said the test-firing was meant ... to “bolster up the nuclear force” and acquire “overwhelming offensive capability in the field of conventional weapons, too,” according to KCNA.

The warning came days after MP Andrei Kolesnik said Putin should authorise a nuclear bomb test as a warning to the West. 'We need to carry out a nuclear explosion somewhere, at some testing ...

Moscow has not conducted a nuclear weapons test since 1990, the year before the fall of the Soviet Union, but some Western and Russian analysts say President Vladimir Putin could order one to try ...

Russian Nuclear Test Chief Says Moscow Is Ready to Resume Testing 'At Any Moment' By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) - The head of Russia's nuclear testing site said on Tuesday his secretive facility was ...