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Explosive Allegations
Dark and Explosive?
Volcanic Explosion on Io
Every day, invisible magnetic explosions are happening around Earth, on the surface of the sun and across the...
Supernovas are often thought of as the tremendous explosions that mark the ends of massive stars' lives. While this...
A Newly Identified Candidate for an Explosive Volcanic Vent on Mercury
This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer; the...
This frame from an animation based on data obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft shows how the explosions of hot...
A new study analyzes several sites where dead stars once exploded. The explosions, called Type Ia supernovae,...
This view of layers around the edge of a low plateau called Home Plate inside Mars Gusev Crater includes a feature...
NASA image release April 6, 2011 NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory completed this four-hour exposure of GRB 110328A...
NASA image release April 6, 2011 Images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-ray telescopes...
This artist concept shows the explosion of a massive star, the remains of which are named Cassiopeia A. NASA Spitzer...
NASA's ARIA team, in collaboration with the Earth Observatory of Singapore, used satellite data to map the extent of...
NASA image releaes April 6, 2011 This is a visible-light image of GRB 110328A's host galaxy (arrow) taken on April 4...
S71-15273 (October 1970) --- Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., commander (right); and Edgar D. Mitchell,...
Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most intriguing. Their predictable...
For the first time, scientists have a three-dimensional view of one of the most powerful and mysterious events in...
Seen as a red dusty cloud in this image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Puppis A is the remnant of a...
This artist concept shows a possible explosion resulting from a high-speed collision between a space rock and...
These postage-stamp images taken by NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer are helping to solve a mystery -- why do the...
Nicknamed the Hand of God, this object is called a pulsar wind nebula, imaged by NASA NuSTAR. It powered by the...
NASA NuSTAR is complementing previous observations of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant red and green by providing...
Two members of the Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal team perch on the test vehicle used in the first flight of NASA...