Electricity can be easily converted into heat—every electric cooker does it. But is the opposite also possible? Can heat be converted into electricity—directly, without a steam turbine or similar ...

Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards says Israel should expect attacks throughout the night. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused ...

Using the world's largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of a ...

These explosions, called extreme nuclear transients, shine for longer than typical supernovas and get 30 to 1,000 times as bright.

Israel continues airstrikes across Iran for a third day and threatens even greater force as some Iranian missiles evade Israeli air defenses.

Israel’s military said it had struck the headquarters of the Quds Force, which reports directly to Iran’s supreme leader. The claim could not be immediately confirmed.

Israel also attacked Iran’s defense ministry’s headquarters, while Iran fired missiles at Israel, in the most direct and prolonged attacks between the rivals ever.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hossein Salami and leading nuclear scientists killed in overnight strikes, Iranian media reports ...

Discovering and studying gravitationally lensed explosions using multiple types of signals will help to answer big questions about the universe.

Engineers discovered the leak during a routine seven-second “hot fire” test of the Falcon 9 rocket’s booster stage, about 12 ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ...