A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...

On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor melted down, but the rest of the world wouldn't learn how close it came to ...

Since then, Yellowstone has seen two more major volcanic eruptions and many smaller ones—earning the name “supervolcano.” The ...

According to scientists, red supergiant stars should produce more supernovas. But astronomers just aren’t spotting them. Here ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) rank among the most powerful explosions in the universe, releasing immense energy in intense flashes ...

Workers who joined the dangerous cleanup effort speak of duty, loss and the catastrophe that continues to haunt Ukraine ...

The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.

Talk about a heated situation. The sun unleashed two colossal solar flares within seven hours of each other this week, ...

Science allowed us to understand the Chernobyl explosion - uncovering the layers of negligence and misinformation was much ...

A huge armada of vehicles were used to clean-up the radioactive aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 40 years ago. Many of them still lie rusting inside the exclusion zone.

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

The explosion occurred on April 14 at the plant in Singhitarai village when a steel tube carrying high-pressure steam from ...