35 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history, parts of Chernobyl are still too radioactive for people to go to.

Oksana Masters is one of Team USA’s greatest Paralympic athletes, and her inspiring journey from a Ukrainian orphanage shaped by the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster is one of resilience, ...

Oksana Masters is celebrated today as America’s most decorated Paralympian, but medals tell only a small part of her story.

The radioactive region around Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history, has become an ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least 16 people have been killed in strikes over the weekend across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia, local authorities said, as the 40th anniversary of the ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists have reported evidence of a narrow genetic signature in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Chernobyl power plant explosion scattered ionizing radiation all over Europe, the damage it dealt lasted much longer than ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." About an hour and a half past midnight on April 26, 1986, an unexpected power surge coursed through a ...

For the third time in Russia’s war against Ukraine, it recently launched the nuclear-capable missile Oreshnik. This intermediate-range ballistic missile has been deployed against Ukrainian cities on ...

In 1986, when both countries were republics of the Soviet Union, reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, ...

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev warned that the continued escalation of the war in Ukraine could lead to an even more dangerous phase of the conflict, including a possible tactical nuclear strike ...