It's now been 40 years since New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. All seven on board were killed when Challenger broke apart following ...

A pair of incredible images taken at the very moment two different stars exploded are also an accurate representation of how our feeble minds are being melted at the awesome but terrifying cosmic ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

A Las Vegas gun range provided a man a Soviet-era submachine gun that exploded after a malfunction, which left him with “severe and debilitating injuries,” according to a lawsuit filed in Clark County ...

A SpaceX test flight endangered several packed passenger jets when it unexpectedly exploded over the Caribbean earlier this year, according to newly-released documents from the Federal Aviation ...

SpaceX said it experienced an anomaly with one if its Starlink satellites that was likely caused by a small explosion. "The anomaly led to venting of the propulsion tank, a rapid decay in semi-major ...

An anomaly caused a sudden drop in altitude and a debris field. An anomaly caused a sudden drop in altitude and a debris field. is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

The debate about 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object that is currently passing through the Solar System, boils down to "Is it a comet?" versus "Is it maybe just possibly an alien spaceship or ...

The car exploded near a metro station in a historic part of New Delhi on Monday night. Officials are investigating and security is tight around the region. By Jin Yu Young Officials in India’s capital ...

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS recently made its closest pass of the Sun, or perihelion, brightening up in observations as solar radiation caused it to shed gases at an immense rate. The ...

Firefighters working the site of a small brush fire in Los Angeles that officials said later reignited into the devastating Palisades Fire were ordered to leave the original burn scene despite tree ...