A black fungus thriving inside Chernobyl’s reactor could help shield astronauts from deadly space radiation. Here’s how ...

Russian drone strikes damaged a structure containing remains from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine - one of the largest ...

A strange black fungus discovered inside the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 doesn’t just resist radiation—it appears to feed ...

With humans largely out of the picture, wildlife has returned to the once-settled Chernobyl area. Last year, researchers found that the region's grey wolves have become largely immune to the ...

A study of the dogs in Chernobyl and the surrounding area, both purebred and free-breeding, are genetically different from ...

Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey ...

For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, ...

The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to ...

The protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can no longer contain radioactive material from the sites’ 1986 disaster after being crippled in a drone strike, the UN nuclear watchdog said ...

Drone damage to the protective shield around a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has rendered it unable to do its main safety function, a nuclear watchdog said. The drone strike ...

Despite the finding, the authorities have been unable to fix the damage from a drone that punctured Reactor No. 4’s outermost protective shield in February. By Kim Barker Radiation levels have not ...

A protective shield at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been in disrepair for 10 months as a result of a Russian drone strike. Officials from the ...