A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hit offshore of Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Wednesday, the country's geophysics agency said, adding there was no tsunami potential.

Disasters at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi have made many people scared of nuclear power. The company ...

At least 27 people were killed and hundreds of others wounded after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan at around 1 am local time on Monday (2030GMT Sunday), officials said.

Ueno Toshogu Shrine was founded in 1627 as a shrine dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu.Its current main hall was rebuilt in ...

Japanese horse racing has been on the precipice of breaking through on the U.S. scene. It seemed like it was almost there in ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident reinforced the importance of having adequate national and international safety standards and guidelines in place so that nuclear power and technology remain safe ...

Scientists have hypotheses about some of nature's biggest mysteries but are still working on proof. Some beautiful phenomena ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to ...

On today's date in 1707, a catastrophic 8.6 magnitude earthquake hit Japan. This quake may have played a role in the last ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock.

It was selected as the nation’s favorite anime in a 2006 poll by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. The contemporary artist ...

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have started talks ahead of a landmark ASEAN summit that will welcome East Timor as the ...