Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic Array 2000 — could uncover some of the biggest outstanding mysteries in ...

Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, says we're walking through "a very dark time," ...

Eliminating the potential for Iran to hide behind a temporary truce or interim agreement—only to then surprise the world with ...

A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in the fields it covers, ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said this week that the country is committed to preventing a global collapse scenario, ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected ...

Those who keep up on current events know that talk of nuclear war continues today, and that’s why “Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon,” a new exhibit about the Doomsday Clock ...

The Department of Homeland Security on Sunday issued a National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin warning of a "heightened threat ...

Israel bombed Iran’s Fordow nuclear bunker site again after the U.S.’s surprise strike on the secretive underground facility ...