It was a meteoric rise. The odds that “city-killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting a ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, has drawn attention from astronomers after NASA confirmed its rising probability of ...

Takashi Hiraoka, 96, a former journalist who served two terms as Hiroshima mayor from 1991, expressed his growing sense of crisis about the municipal government’s recent decisions.

In short, while the image is real, it happened after the bombing of Nagasaki, not Hiroshima. The earliest example of the claim that the photo showed an "atomic shadow" appeared in an October 2009 ...

They will be flying in the early morning, but the crew still do not know which of three cities will be their target: Hiroshima, Kokura or Nagasaki. Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee have ...

NASA announced Tuesday that a city-leveling asteroid now has a 3.1% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, making it the most ...

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 ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya officially announced on Feb. 18 that Japan will not attend an anti-nuclear weapons meeting at the United Nations in March, drawing indignation from the 2024 Nobel Peace ...

While rural areas have long struggled with depopulation, a tipping point for urban centres is expected by 2035, according to ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The Hiroshima prefectural government said Monday it is inviting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to its capital city for the 80th anniversary of the United States ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...