The owner of the biscuit factory “Violanta” has been remanded in custody for the deadly explosion that cost the lives of five employees. What he claimed in his testimony and the details that were ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

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 object with gravity so ​strong not ...

From post-punk’s jagged edges to stadium rock’s final roar, 1979 was the year music’s old guard met its neon future ...

Fire officials said a tank exploded at Kittyhawk Products, a high-pressure manufacturing facility in Canby. Three employees ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

A senior official from the State Department presented new seismic data to bolster the accusation that Beijing may have ...

Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

NASA’s NEOWISE archival data tracks a massive star in Andromeda fading quietly into a black hole, providing detailed observations of stellar collapse and gas expulsion from 2005 to 2023.

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