In 1994, astronomers witnessed one of the most dramatic events ever recorded in space when comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smashed ...

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams testified for the second day today at the Royal Courts of Justice in London in a case alleging he is liable for IRA bombs between ...

A diver off the coast of British Columbia was searching for fish when he discovered a mysterious object on the Pacific Ocean ...

In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, a hydrogen bomb with a 50-megaton yield—the largest explosion ever created by humans. The blast was about 3,800 times stronger than Hiroshima and ...

Diver Sean Smyrichinsky was searching for fish off the coast of British Columbia when he spotted a strange UFO-shaped object underwater - sparking a Canadian military investigation into a potentially ...

During the peak of their powers, one essential LP in Deep Purple's hard rock canon was initially met with some resistance.

In 1939, German scientists Otto Hahn (later a Nobel laureate in Chemistry) and Fritz Strassmann discovered the effect of ...

The Clearfield woman who died Oct. 4, 2019, when a bomb exploded in her apartment received what she described to a neighbor as a “weirdo creepy scary box” that she was afraid to open. But before the ...

A woman sifts through the rubble of a house damaged by missile attacks in Tehran on March 15. (Majid Saeedi/) Now in its ...

A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a ...

Summary The Doomsday Clock seeks to capture the severity of the existential threats facing humankind, as understood by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. While initially focused on nuclear ...