What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive ...

We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

When an explosion or a projectile is directed against a solid, an intense wave of pressure and stress passes through it. Such waves can be used to study materials and also to process them ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

A new study suggests deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass ...

THE explosion of the Soviet 50 megaton bomb in ... when as many as seven passages of the wave-front between Krakatoa and its antipode were observed. 1 ...

By strategically positioning a 5mm bump on the combustor wall, engineers found they could induce self-sustaining “detonation diamonds” – ultra-fast shock wave-fuelled explosions – that ...

They left the door open so they could watch the blast go off . They knew that they would have time to close the door because it would take 30 seconds for the shock wave to reach them. Kurchatov ...

The Halifax explosion on December 6 ... Windows were broken 75 kilometres away and the shock waves felt more than 300 kilometres away. The shaft of the ship's anchor, weighing a half-tonne ...

In their paper, published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers reported that collisionless shock waves, which are easy to find throughout the universe, could be the cosmic engines ...