This article was updated at 2:07 p.m. Eastern Time. In a sign of pessimism about humanity's future, scientists today set the hands of the infamous "Doomsday Clock" forward one minute from two years ...

Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group ...

A Chicago-based group of scientists have once again warned the world is closer than ever to human-made destruction by moving the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” up to 85 seconds to midnight.

Starting in 1947, an advocacy group used a clock to symbolize the likelihood of people doing something to end humanity.

The 'Doomsday Clock', which symbolically shows the time remaining until Earth's destruction, has moved 4 seconds closer to midnight compared to last year. Midnight symbolizes the endpoint of human ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George and Steve Fetter reveal the Doomsday Clock, set to 85 seconds to midnight, during a news conference at the ...