When a nuclear disaster struck Chernobyl in 1986, it turned a bustling Soviet city into a ghost town by forcing residents to ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown is continuing on Sunday, March 8 at 9 p.m. There are several ways to watch with a free live stream.

From Pripyat’s sudden evacuation to the Ferris wheel that never opened, these documented Chernobyl scenes show how eerie the exclusion zone became after April 1986. The story is not just about ruins, ...

HBO's 2019 miniseries, Chernobyl, explains the events of the 1986 nuclear plant disaster, and the chilling series will sit with you for a while.

Russian troops who had occupied the nuclear power station at Chernobyl may have been exposed to "significant doses" of radiation, Ukraine's state energy company Energoatom said Friday. The company ...

For decades, one of Chernobyl’s most repeated stories claimed three men knowingly walked to their deaths to save Europe from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stray dogs hang out near an abandoned, partially-completed cooling tower at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.Sean Gallup/Getty ...

7 years after Chernobyl, HBO Max's new Fukushima documentary film has emerged as the platform's number one hit domestically.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...