NASA and the European Space Agency spotted a cosmic object that was splitting apart before it exploded, something not a ...

Three years of war have left Sudan’s capital studded with unexploded land mines and other weapons that have killed and maimed ...

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A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, ...

COLORADO SPRINGS–Thirteen years ago a 20-m asteroid streaked without warning into Earth’s atmosphere before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,500 people and causing widespread ...

A car exploded during an alleged street takeover on Chicago's South Side over the weekend, with no arrests made amid a wave ...

Iran says it has placed mines in the Straight of Hormuz to discourage independent traffic. How dangerous are naval mines, and what can be done to clear them?

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Astronomers report that WOH G64, one of the largest known stars, appears to have undergone a striking transformation into a ...

DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...