A good number of important scientific inquiries center on the physics of explosions. The new facility will help scientists explore how and why things go boom.

Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn ...

Astronomers studying gravitational waves have found statistical evidence for a long-predicted class of stellar explosion so powerful it can tear apart the cores of the most massive stars in the ...

Guatemala’s Santa Maria volcano sent ash plumes roughly 100 kilometers downwind during late May 2026, with fine particulate drifting into southern Mexican airspace, while Fuego volcano fired off a ...