In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

"If our hypothesized dark charge is true, then we believe there could be a significant population of primordial black holes, ...

Once this effect kicks in, the black hole discharges rapidly and explodes. Crucially, the UMass team calculated that this ...

Scientists suggests that a primordial black hole's death could be behind a mystery high-energy neutrino that crashed into Earth.

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been ...

UPPER MICHIGAN (WLUC) - A Michigan Tech University professor says trees are more likely to fall down from heavy ice and snow rather than exploding. There’s been a lot of talk on social media recently ...

As a potentially historic winter storm prepares to slam the US, meteorologists have warned that conditions could become so brutal that trees could start exploding. Meteorologist Max Velocity said this ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — You may have read about this viral story online – a warning to be wary of “exploding trees”. But is it really something to be concerned about? While there is some science explaining ...

25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. (Image: NASA/CXC/SAO) NASA shared a time-lapse video of Kepler's Supernova Remnant expanding. Chandra's X-ray images show intricate debris patterns ...

This illustration depicts an artist’s impression of one of the brightest explosions ever observed in space. (Image: NASA, ESA, NSF's NOIRLab, Mark Garlick, Mahdi Zamani) Astronomers using the James ...

For roughly a century, organic chemistry students have been taught to treat Bredt’s rule like a hard stop sign. If a double bond sits at the bridgehead of a small, rigid bicyclic molecule, the ...

This artist's impression shows, about 22 million light-years away, the supernova SN 2024ggi exploding in the galaxy NGC 3621. (ESO/L. Calçada via SWNS) By Dean Murray Scientists have revealed for the ...