NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations.

A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke and soot from firestorms block sunlight, came to fruition, global ...

Astronomers have finally been able to capture the shape of a star explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage, all thanks to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory. A team ...

In this special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, experts reflect on 2011 and highlight what to look out for in 2012 in the areas of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron stars. The results reveal faster nuclear reactions than previously thought, ...