The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has excited astronomers. It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade-long ...

Nine U.S. grain dust explosions in 2024 caused two injuries and no fatalities, according to a nationwide annual summary. These numbers are similar to last year's (nine explosions, 12 injuries and no ...

It was no ordinary Martian cloud, he said, but must be the product of a “terrific explosion.” He added that he was not certain that the explosion could be of volcanic origin. The ominous ...

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024. At a glance, it appeared to be a run-of-the-mill gamma ray burst, which ...

An international research team led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made significant ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

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A deadly gas explosion at the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store in Taiwan's Taichung city resulted in one fatality and 11 ...

Nine U.S. grain dust explosions in 2024 caused two injuries and no fatalities, according to a nationwide annual summary.