We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sounds. The Crab Nebula ...

Globular cluster M15 hides within it a planetary nebula, Pease 1. Observers with large scopes and steady skies can find it.

Explosion damages Hammond metal can factory An explosion caused significant damage Tuesday night at a factory in Hammond, Indiana.

A Sanford home was engulfed in flames on Friday afternoon after a reported “explosion” rocked a local neighborhood, according to the Seminole County Fire Department.

The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

An investigation is underway by the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department after two children were critically injured in a fireworks explosion Sunday night.

Mexico's president has threatened a lawsuit against SpaceX following an explosion at the company's Starbase facility in June 2025.

The boy was airlifted to an Oklahoma City hospital after he sustained a burn injury at the Jasmine Moran Children's Museum, NBC affiliate KFOR reported.

Seven people remain unaccounted for after a massive explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Northern California that sparked a fire and forced evacuations.

A new star, a nova dubbed V462 Lupi, is now visible to the naked eye from North America.

The Esparto explosion is California’s first fireworks facility disaster in almost 30 years.