The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

China is putting together a planetary defence team after scientists spotted a huge asteroid heading towards the Earth. NASA and the European Space Agency have put asteroid 2024 YR4 at the top of the ...

An asteroid that could cause huge destruction is now being carefully watched. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has the potential to release ...

In short, while the image is real, it happened after the bombing of Nagasaki, not Hiroshima. The earliest example of the claim that the photo showed an "atomic shadow" appeared in an October 2009 ...

Barack Obama was the first American president to visit Hiroshima since the nuclear attack on the city. In his speech in May ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

HIROSHIMA--Tetsuko Shakuda was a frightened 14-year-old when she resumed her work as a conductor on a tram line in the devastated city of Hiroshima, just three days after the atomic bomb exploded ...

SCIENTISTS do not have much time to deflect the asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...

Roy Daines had his memories of the war published to mark his 90th birthday - 12 years ago An RAF veteran who was one of the first British personnel to witness a flattened Hiroshima and survived ...

Mr Daines recalled seeing the aftermath of the atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima by the US, when he was stationed in Japan after the war. "Hiroshima was just flat, it was absolutely devastated ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero soon after the atomic bombing to provide emotional support for survivors, is finally coming home after disappearing for ...

The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are shifting, with the space rock now carrying a 1-in-48 chance of collision.