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

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

Emmanuel Steven Lidden could be sentenced to 10 years in jail after ordering radioactive substances, including plutonium, in the mail in an attempt to collect all the elements of the periodic table ...

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

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

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing actinides. The method provides unique insights into the electronic ...

Researchers have unveiled berkelocene, a compound containing the synthetic element berkelium nestled ... the heaviest being plutonium. “Those molecules have been foundational to our current ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran is taking steps to accelerate its near weapons-grade uranium in a broader effort to expand its capability for nuclear warfare, according to ...