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

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

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has a 97.9% chance to safely pass the Earth in 2032, as per NASA scientists. If it strikes, the ...

China is putting together a planetary defence team after scientists spotted a huge asteroid heading towards the Earth. NASA ...

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

COMMENTARY: The Feb. 13-15, 1945, firebombing of the eastern German city symbolizes the brutality of World War II.

There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton ...

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 ...

Nasa says explosion would be 150 times greater than A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima with chances of it smashing into the planet ...

A trove of over 1,500 photographs taken in the months following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has been nominated for inclusion in UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. The education ministry ...

More than 25,000 people died during the Allied firebombing of the city of Dresden, Germany, from February 13 to 15, ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...