People have been blowing things up ever since they discovered they could. From the earliest lightning-wrought flames of forest fires to the invention of gunpowder and the advent of nuclear power, ...

Astronomers have re-examined the biggest explosion ever seen, possibly the most massive explosion since the Big Bang, to learn more about mysterious blasts of high-energy called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs ...

November 4th, 2010, began as any normal day, but for the 440 passengers and 29 crew aboard Qantas Flight 32, it became a nightmare. A catastrophic engine explosion in the Airbus A380 sent them ...

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. The ...