Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

Beyond better testing, we need better protection. Physical shields seem like the obvious first defense. Hydrogen-rich materials such as polyethylene and water-absorbing hydrogels can slow charged ...

Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our sun millions of years ago.

However, the mechanism that has been thought to explain how that stardust disperses has now been shown to be flawed, and the team that made the discovery doesn’t have a coherent alternative to offer ...

Hubble’s latest view of N159 captures newborn stars igniting, glowing, and blasting bubbles into a vast cosmic nursery.

This year, the development and spending around artificial intelligence has been perhaps the most significant business and ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that doubles the amount of hydrogen produced when splitting water molecules with ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

Six people were hospitalized in California following a devastating home explosion caught on video. Footage from a doorbell camera at a home near Hayward in the San Francisco Bay Area showed a property ...

Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. LATEST Dec. 11, 2 p.m. An explosion in Hayward occurred 10 minutes after gas flow had been shut off, according to ...

A powerful explosion rocked a neighborhood near Hayward Thursday morning, leaving at least six people injured and multiple buildings significantly damaged, officials said. The explosion and subsequent ...