Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ever come to self-annihilation.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, signaling that experts fear we are dangerously close to a global ...

The next edition of the Clock will be revealed Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 10 a.m. EST on a live webcast. It will be a closely held ... Two years later, as those same scientists contemplated a world in which ...

Last year, the clock was set at 90 seconds to midnight. “Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

On Tuesday, the SASB announced during a live news conference at the United States ... "That means that we move the clock to reflect the state of the world in hopes of influencing public perception to ...