A massive explosion at an oil refinery in Los Angeles triggered a huge fire ball that sent shockwaves through the city ...

Footage shows the aftermath of an explosion at a major US oil refinery. Chevron's El Segundo oil refinery went up in flames ...

Need a refresher about 3I/ATLAS? Here's everything to know about the interstellar object, including when the latest observations will be made.

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up ...

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A GIANT asteroid that risks crashing into the Moon could be nuked before it makes impact. Scientists are looking into the possibility of destroying the so-called “city-killer” asteroid ...

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With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

The Greensburg-based fire marshal for the Pennsylvania State Police continues to investigate what caused an East Huntingdon mobile home to explode Saturday, killing an elderly man on his porch.

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though the Earth has blown holes in itself. While the origin story of these ...

Three people were injured in a home explosion in Grand Prairie, firefighters said. All three were taken to the hospital with burn injuries. The explosion happened on North Martin Luther King, Jr.