Aerial images of the 19 mile exclusion zone around the plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, showed scorched, blackened earth and the charred stumps of still smoldering trees.

Deep in the radiated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Ukraine stands the abandoned Duga radar, a mysterious piece of Soviet Cold War technology also known as the “Russian Woodpecker.” ...

Filmmaker Danny Cook went earlier this year to Pripyat—an abandoned city near Chernobyl, Ukraine—and captured this new amazing footage. It's the closest. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident nearby forests died. This week on Josh Gates’ Destination Truth, the team head to the area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine where the 1986 ...