The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, and fallout cloud were ...

In this except from the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we hear from the people at the historic first test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico.

Authorities have suspended the pyrotechnic licenses of two men following the devastating explosion and fire at a fireworks storage facility in Yolo County earlier this month, Cal Fire ...

The state was immediately changed by Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project's detonation of the world's first atomic weapon, ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines – with ...

Chronicling the life of an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation, “Washington Black” follows him from slavery ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...

A Delta flight traveling from Atlanta to San Diego made an unplanned landing in Texas after a passenger began disrobing and had to be restrained.

Authorities said Monday that they expect to identify, by Wednesday, the remains of seven people likely killed in last week’s fireworks warehouse explosion near Esparto.