Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...

While its discovery involved more than one fumbling astronomer, the asteroid 2024 Y24 has been in the headlines for its high ...

Please come visit Hiroshima." On Jan. 19, 80-year-old Koko Kondo, who had been exposed to the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing in Hiroshima at just 8 months old, warmly addressed each member of the ...

Below is an extraordinary document, the first detailed account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, written by one of the survivors, the Rev. John A. Siemes, S.J., professor of modern philosophy at ...

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 has welcomed 2 million ...

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...

The first hit Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first.

YR4 has a one-in-32 chance of hitting Earth according to NASA scientists, and would be 500 times more powerful than the ...

The city of Hiroshima is best known among overseas visitors as the site of the world’s first atomic bombing. The city’s association with nuclear weapons has been underscored by the recent Nobel Peace ...

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum documenting the devastation caused by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 has welcomed 2 million visitors in the current fiscal year that started April, a record high since ...