Authorities have suspended the pyrotechnic licenses of two men following the devastating explosion and fire at a fireworks storage facility in Yolo County earlier this month, Cal Fire ...

In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...

The state was immediately changed by Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project's detonation of the world's first atomic weapon, ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

Quasars, or extremely active black holes are the brightest objects in the universe. But aren't black holes meant to be ...

Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines – with ...

Chronicling the life of an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, “Washington Black” follows him from slavery ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...

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