It's now been 40 years since New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. All seven on board were killed when Challenger broke apart following ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years leading up to its death. The radio waves reveal that the star violently shed ...

A two-month-old Galaxy S25 Plus exploded while charging in November 2025, and the affected user reports that Samsung has now admitted liability. The company has reportedly agreed to cover the cost of ...

A pair of incredible images taken at the very moment two different stars exploded are also an accurate representation of how our feeble minds are being melted at the awesome but terrifying cosmic ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Are you ready for CES 2026? While the show floor doesn't open until Tuesday, things are effectively kicking off this evening with the first big press event of the show. Samsung is taking the stage to ...

A Las Vegas gun range provided a man a Soviet-era submachine gun that exploded after a malfunction, which left him with “severe and debilitating injuries,” according to a lawsuit filed in Clark County ...

A SpaceX test flight endangered several packed passenger jets when it unexpectedly exploded over the Caribbean earlier this year, according to newly-released documents from the Federal Aviation ...

An anomaly caused a sudden drop in altitude and a debris field. An anomaly caused a sudden drop in altitude and a debris field. is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

The debate about 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object that is currently passing through the Solar System, boils down to "Is it a comet?" versus "Is it maybe just possibly an alien spaceship or ...

The car exploded near a metro station in a historic part of New Delhi on Monday night. Officials are investigating and security is tight around the region. By Jin Yu Young Officials in India’s capital ...