Prosecuting lawyers are pushing for a “science nerd” to receive a custodial sentence for importing plutonium and uranium -- ...

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 ...

A wildlife corridor plans to connect two Superfund sites at the former Rocky Flats plutonium plant and the Rocky Mountain ...

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

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Since the first nuclear explosion in history during the Trinity test in 1945, nuclear weapons have significantly shaped the ...

After finding the debris of two colliding stars swimming in the ocean, researchers are after more evidence from the lunar ...

Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local ...