The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of Earth's most haunting yet paradoxical places, where death and life intertwine in ways no scientist ever predicted. Nearly 39 years after the world's worst ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost ...

In April of 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. To this day, it’s the ...

A GIANT dome at the Chornobyl nuclear plant that was built to contain radiation is no longer functioning after a drone attack ...

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has confirmed that the protective shield covering the ruined Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear ...

A Chernobyl fungus that grows faster under radiation is drawing new scientific interest, revealing surprising resilience inside the nuclear disaster zone.

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, where human life is tightly controlled and radiation still lingers at dangerous levels, a dark, velvety fungus has quietly colonized the walls. Researchers say ...

New fungus thrives on radiation near Chernobyl reactor, using melanin to generate energy through radiosynthesis.

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency made a troubling announcement on Friday: Chernobyl's protective shield is no longer working. The containment hangar was meant to seal in radioactive ...

They’re not turning blue. But are the stray dogs roaming Chernobyl’s radioactive wasteland undergoing rapid evolutionary ...

The site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster remains damaged, but so far, radiation levels outside the plant have not ...

UN nuclear watchdog warns the shield in Ukraine was damaged in a Russian drone strike in February, and can no longer perform ...