Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a ...

At 5:29am on July 16, 1945, humanity lurched into the birth of a dangerous new era as the world's very first nuclear ...

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare ...

An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for quantum computers, solar power, and batteries. Reading time 3 minutes America’s ...

A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

Researchers have discovered a new clathrate material in trinitite glass from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test, offering insights ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...