This Plant Explodes When You Touch It — A Biologist Explains Why

With the lightest touch, this plant bursts open, flinging its seeds through the air. Here’s how it evolved this biological ...

Exploding Comet Is Spotted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

AI rebuilds molecules from exploding fragments

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and collaborating institutions recently built a generative AI model that can recreate molecular structures from the ...

Does San Francisco celebrate St. Patrick's Day by dyeing sidewalk poop green? Don't step in this claim

Satirical website The Babylon Bee first posted the made-up rumor.

NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

In written testimony to Congress in 2023, the federation urged the government to use “existing industry data” to understand ...

NASA’s Hubble telescope spots K1 comet exploding into fragments, space agency says

NASA’s Hubble telescope captured an “extraordinarily” rare moment of a comet exploding into fragments, the space agency said. The comet K1, whose full name is C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), was caught fragmenting ...