Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.

A fast-food worker and collector is set to learn his fate after shipping nuclear material to his parent's suburban unit, ...

Prosecuting lawyers are pushing for a “science nerd” to receive a custodial sentence for importing plutonium and uranium -- ...

Emmanuel Steven Lidden could be sentenced to 10 years in jail after ordering radioactive substances, including plutonium, in ...

Instead, plutonium-238 is an unstable element that will undergo radioactive decay. Radioactive decay, or nuclear decay, happens when an unstable atomic nucleus spontaneously and randomly emits ...

Building up a nuclear deterrent from scratch is no easy feat, but with the US distancing itself from Europe, the idea has ...

Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...