The space shuttle Challenger explosion was a defining moment of the 1980s. Whether you were watching on TV or in person, ...

Forty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after liftoff, the disaster remains one of the most consequential tragedies in U.S. spaceflight history.

The Texas fertilizer disaster turned a routine fire call into one of the deadliest industrial explosions in U.S. history. A massive blast at a local plant killed 15 people, including 12 first ...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion. One of the crew members called South Carolina home.

As news of local disasters spreads, such as the recent explosion and fire in Bell Gardens that damaged an apartment building, many of us are reminded of the importance of community and resilience.

In many ways, Edward Burkhardt is in the middle of a train company CEO's worst nightmare: one of his trains, carrying 72 cars of crude oil, went out of control and exploded in a small Quebec border ...

On the evening of August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The explosion happened as hundreds of cameras were already pointed at a burning warehouse, in which more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four months have passed since a Louisiana oil facility burst apart, spewing a dense black sludge that drifted across homes, farms, ...

An explosion at the “Plastmass” munitions factory in the town of Kopeisk, near Chelyabinsk, Russia, has taken the lives of at least 13 workers. The explosion occurred in the night of October 22-23. As ...

The Chernobyl disaster is probably the most memorable nuclear disaster in history due to the explosion and all the deaths caused by severe radiation poisoning. Research that shows the dogs of ...