It started with a blowout on an offshore drilling platform — and within minutes, oil and gas were shooting into the air. Even after crews sealed the well, pressure forced oil through the seafloor, ...

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Several other people also spoke about hearing an explosion. “Did y'all see a meteor / shooting star over Houston just a little bit ago? If you did, please send me pics/videos!,” a KPRC reporter wrote ...

The fireball streaking through the sky in Ohio on March 17, causing loud booms and homes to shake, has been confirmed by NASA to have been a meteor traveling through Earth's atmosphere. The agency ...

HOUSTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N), opens new tab has shut its 380,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) oil refinery in Port ‌Arthur, Texas, following an explosion and fire at a diesel ...

It's been four days since a home explosion in Lake Dallas forced evacuations and left one woman critically injured on Moseley Street. Tonight, neighbors are still searching for answers. Some still can ...

Residents of a Texas city were urged to shelter in place following an explosion and fire at a Valero oil refinery that sent massive plumes of smoke billowing into the air. The incident happened Monday ...

A fiery streak across the sky and a loud boom greeted many residents of northeast Ohio on the morning of March 17. The rare celestial spectacle, which took place a little before 9 A.M. Eastern ...

Molecular self-assembly is the spontaneous association of molecules, through non covalent bonds and under equilibrium conditions, into stable, structurally well-defined aggregates. The demand for ...

Supernova shot. Astronomers captured this stunning 1.3-gigapixel image of the Vela supernova remnant — the remains of a star that exploded more than 10,000 years ago — using the telescope-mounted Dark ...

His latest project is to recreate the Iron Man gauntlet, tailor-made to fit his own hand. “It’s a transformable wearable, based on Iron Man 3 [released in 2013],” says Davenport. “In the movie, the ...