Scientists ran the numbers on nuclear war, and the results are far worse than anyone dared imagine. The planet itself wouldn't survive unscathed.

The battlefield imagery of war I grew up with has been replaced by grainy, abstract videos and footage, obscuring the human toll.

As blasts tear through the nights in Tehran, Mohammed and Mariam lie awake. Most of the explosions are between 1 am and 5 am, they say.

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

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CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

As the US-Israeli war machine embarks on a new adventure in Iran, it’s worth examining one of the key states facilitating this aggression. The United Arab Emirates has pioneered a militarized ...

Warships are built to survive explosions, flooding, and battle damage, but a nuclear detonation creates a very different problem. Blast pressure, heat, and radiation can overwhelm even the toughest ...

The birth of massive stars involves gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, all of which influence the flow of matter. Find out more here: ...

The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.