Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike ...

MAY INTERFERE WITH YOUR DRIVE TIME ON THE CLOCK. 503 WE ARE FOLLOWING A DEVELOPING STORY OUT OF ROWAN COUNTY. INVESTIGATORS SAY 12 FIREFIGHTERS AND TWO PEOPLE ARE RECOVERING AFTER A HOUSE EXPLOSION.

LEWISTON, Idaho — One person is dead after an explosion Saturday morning in the parking lot of an Old Navy in Lewiston. The explosion involved a U-Haul truck and damaged nearby businesses, including ...

A gas explosion and fire at a home near Hayward and Interstate Highway 238 on Thursday morning injured multiple people and destroyed or damaged at least three structures, authorities said. The ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - An explosion in Hayward on Thursday that rocked a normally peaceful neighborhood was captured in dramatic images, from photos on the street to a doorbell camera video that showed the ...

Six people were hospitalized in California following a devastating home explosion caught on video. Footage from a doorbell camera at a home near Hayward in the San Francisco Bay Area showed a property ...

HAYWARD, Calif. -- At least six people were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after a massive explosion caused a large fire in Hayward, California, fire officials say. The Alameda County Fire ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A gas explosion set off a major fire in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood on Thursday after obliterating at least one home, blowing out windows and shaking nearby houses. Six ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...