The Doomsday Clock is seen at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest the clock has ever been to midnight in its 78-year history. / Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images ...

The 2023 Doomsday Clock is displayed before of a live-streamed event with members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images ...

It was a small change, but a frightening one. Last month, the "Doomsday Clock" was moved up to 89 seconds, the closest the world has ever been to total annihilation. The Bulletin of Atomic ...

The clock has moved to 90 seconds before midnight, 10 seconds closer than when it was last set in January 2022, shortly before Russia launched its invasion against Ukraine on Feb. 24.

The famed Doomsday Clock is staying set at 100 seconds to midnight this year, keeping the metaphor of how close the Earth is to annihilation at its closest time to that point since its creation 74 … ...

Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists revealed on Tuesday that world's metaphorical Doomsday clock has reached 90 seconds to midnight – the closest the world has ever been to "global ...

The 100 seconds was the closest the clock had come to midnight before Tuesday, having been set in 2020 after the global shutdown caused by COVID-19, and repeated in 2021.

The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by many of the scientists who helped develop the first nuclear weapons for the U.S. and has continually tracked humanity’s proximity to extinction ever since.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 20 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock remain at 100 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse. The Bulletin meets every ...

The Doomsday clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight on Tuesday morning, putting it the closest the world has ever been to what scientists deem "global catastrophe." The decades-old international ...

"We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday clock time reflects that reality. 90 seconds to midnight is the closest the clock has ever been set to midnight, and it's a ...