NASA and the European Space Agency spotted a cosmic object that was splitting apart before it exploded, something not a ...
Three years of war have left Sudan’s capital studded with unexploded land mines and other weapons that have killed and maimed ...
In popular imagination and in science fiction, black holes are places of intense gravity, kind of like cosmic vacuum cleaners ...
A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...
On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, ...
COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,500 people and causing widespread ...
A car exploded during an alleged street takeover on Chicago's South Side over the weekend, with no arrests made amid a wave ...
On a gray Monday in Cupertino this spring, Apple did something it has only done a handful of times in its history: it told ...
I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing ...
Iran says it has placed mines in the Straight of Hormuz to discourage independent traffic. How dangerous are naval mines, and what can be done to clear them?
Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how bacteria share genes—including those that spread antibiotic resistance. Tiny virus-like particles called gene transfer agents (GTAs), once ancient ...