The 1917 disaster was, at that point, the biggest explosion in history.

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

Blue Origin rocket erupts during practice launch off Cape Canaveral, Florida. A boater captured the apocalyptic scene from ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Former U.S. astronaut Terry Virts tells “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” that Thursday’s explosion of a Blue Origin rocket during a test demonstrates how dangerous the fueling process can be. “It looks like ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...