On April 5, 1958, Canada detonated the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. Known as the Ripple Rock blast, it removed a ...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon in history. The world had never seen destruction on such a scale.

Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe in a galaxy cluster 390 million light years away. At the center of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, there is a supermassive black ...

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 ...

In A World Without Summer, Nicholas Day traces the devastating fallout from the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, which ...

1911: Chicago White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh threw the first no-hitter at Comiskey Park.