The first reporter on the scene of the Chernobyl accident in late April 1986 was Vladimir Gubaryev, science editor of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper in the Soviet Union. An engineer by training ...

The catastrophic explosion of the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ... a revelation that continues to redefine how scientists perceive the resilience strategies of extremophiles ...

Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine, are close to finishing a new state-of-the-art protective shelter over the remains of reactor no. 4, the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.

On Monday, eight species of fungi gathered from Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX rocket. Scientists hope ...

For a series that airs strongly on the side of accuracy, "Chernobyl" took a detour with Khomyuk, who represents multiple Soviet scientists who investigated the cause of the power plant accident.