The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has released a new safety video on its investigation into the fatal combustible dust explosions and fires at the Didion Milling facility in ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift. Until it became the shift he would never forget. At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a sprawling ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.

Astronomers tracked a star that slowly faded instead of exploding. The quiet disappearance may reveal a hidden way black ...

Hubble's latest image unveils the Egg Nebula in unprecedented detail. This pre-planetary nebula, formed by a dying Sun-like star, shows dramatic light beams piercing dust to illuminate gas shells and ...

An explosion at a biotech company in northern China killed eight people on 7 February. The incident happened at a facility in Shuoyang, Shanxi province operated by a small firm called Jiapeng ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense ...

One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy has disappeared without the explosion astronomers expected. Instead, they ...

After the 2010 explosion, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined U.S. Steel and a subcontractor $175,000 for safety violations. U.S. Steel appealed its citations and fines, which were ...

ASASSN-24fw is a star a little bigger and heavier than our Sun. It is an F-type, main-sequence star which means it is hot, bright, and stable and not prone to sudden explosions ...