One rock, as big as a football field, careening through space on an elliptical orbit that lasts four years, suddenly found itself one of the most observed bodies in our solar system, according to NASA ...

The 1815 eruption produced 60 megatons of sulfur, and as a result, average global temperatures dropped by around 3°C (5.4°F).

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but ...

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

Donald Trump is being ripped on social media for his response to the death of Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, on Sunday. Reiner, 78, and Singer, 68, were found dead with ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into an explosion that levelled multiple buildings and injured six people Thursday near Hayward. The NTSB formally arrived to ...

Drone footage showing the aftermath of an explosion in California that injured six people and damaged several homes is circulating online. The drone, which flies over the explosion site, captures a ...

A massive gas explosion rocked an unincorporated neighborhood near Hayward on Thursday, Dec. 11, injuring six people and damaging multiple homes, according to Alameda County fire officials. The blast ...