A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole ...

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Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly ...

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Once this effect kicks in, the black hole discharges rapidly and explodes. Crucially, the UMass team calculated that this ...

The annular solar eclipse will see the moon cover the majority of the solar disk, surrounding it in a fiery halo.

Scientists say that multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger of following a "hothouse" path driven by feedback ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

Social media posts warning of "exploding trees" in subzero temperatures are mischaracterizing a phenomenon known as frost cracks. Frost cracks form when water inside trees freezes and expands. As a ...

This weekend, much of the United States is expecting to be hit with a polar vortex with extreme cold — cold that's icy, bone-chilling and … explosive? As people prepare for these frigid temperatures, ...