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

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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.

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

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

HAYWARD, Calif. (KGO) -- A gas explosion set off a major fire in a Hayward neighborhood on Thursday after obliterating at least one home, blowing out windows and shaking nearby homes. Six people were ...

Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...