Deep inside the Chernobyl Zone, we found an abandoned Soviet-era spy facility built for the Cold War. The place is decaying, but the message is still loud anti-USA propaganda, Soviet signage, and a ...

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Control panel for Reactor 4 of the dilapidated Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Tkachuk/Getty Images As we reach the 40-year ...

A wildfire spanning at least five square miles broke out inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone on Friday after two drones crashed near the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, according to ...

A large forest fire is spreading through the Chernobyl exclusion zone after a drone struck the area yesterday. Though the fire is serious, those on the ground say the risk of radioactive contamination ...

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found. Reading time 3 minutes The most expensive nuclear disaster in human history ...

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

The remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant can be seen last year from the upper floors of the Polissya Hotel in Pripyat, which was used by officials and specialists during the response to the ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

Nataliia Khodymchuk’s last evening at home was like many that had come before. She stayed in the neat confines of her three-bedroom apartment in Kyiv, slicing garlic to preserve and knitting socks and ...

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...