Learn more about this mold’s ability to withstand high levels of radiation and how it could prove useful to astronauts looking to build long-term bases on Mars.

In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving where radiation levels would shred human DNA, turning abandoned nuclear sites ...

A Russian drone has struck the vast protective shell covering the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine said on Friday. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ...

Wild images show several dogs near the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant turning blue, baffling workers taking care of them. The alarming-looking dogs — descendants of pets abandoned after the nuclear ...

The physical and financial legacies of that disaster are obvious: a 30-km uninhabited ring around the Chernobyl plant, billions of dollars spent cleaning the region and a major new effort to drum up ...

Dr. Jennifer Betz, medical director for the Dogs of Chernobyl program, said there is a "0% chance that the blue color is related to radiation." In late 2025, social media users began sharing images ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

MINSK, 26 April (BelTA) – A catastrophe occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 39 years ago, on 26 April 1986. Its consequences have affected many countries across Europe one way or another but ...