Unlike other elements reportedly gathered by Lidden, the plutonium sparked a major hazmat alert, requiring a response from the Australian Border Force (ABF) officials, firefighters, and police. He and ...

Do we inhabit a cosmic wasteland teeming with remnants of massive stellar explosions? Recent research proposes that approximately 10 million years ago, Earth and its Moon were bombarded by debris from ...

Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.

Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually electricity. While this concept sounds ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...

A fast-food worker and collector is set to learn his fate after shipping nuclear material to his parent's suburban unit, ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...