"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

A photo supposedly showing the "atomic shadow" of a human and a ladder that was created when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs above Japan at the end of World War II has been frequently shared online ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one ...

The Nagasaki nuke blasted just three days after an initial atomic bomb killed around 100,000 people in Hiroshima. Japan surrendered days later after the attack but Fukahori spent years detailing ...

In the hold was an experimental bomb, codenamed Little Boy. The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid sirens had sounded twice that morning already. On both occasions the all clear followed ...

1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Days later Japan surrendered. Around 140,000 people died in ...

But critics protested that citizens who have long opposed warfare and nuclear weaponry in various way were alike barred from the site this year. Hiroshima officials distributed a questionnaire to ...

thereby saving humanity from the horrors of nuclear holocaust," Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki said in a letter addressed to Trump sent via the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, inviting him to come to the ...

receives from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, left, a letter of request from a nongovernmental group consisting of heads of municipalities in Japan and abroad pressing to rid the world of nuclear ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui has urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer at a meeting in March of signatories to the U.N. nuclear ban treaty. During ...