Deep in the forests of Borneo lives one of the most extraordinary insects ever discovered: the exploding ant. When its colony comes under attack, this tiny defender does something almost unbelievable.

Anyone who has ever stepped into a fire ant nest knows the sting all too well. It’s a painful reminder that these tiny invaders are here to stay.

A gargantuan fireworks detonation likely caused by someone smoking a cigarette obliterated several homes and injured five ...

On Saturday, at around 2:06 pm ET, a meteor streaked over the northeastern US and exploded north of Cape Cod Bay. The ...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts ...

A star could be about to become visible in the night sky in a once-every-80-years explosion. Here’s how to easily find T ...

The unsettling boom, rumble and shaking heard and felt across Greater Boston Saturday afternoon may have come from a meteor. First reports of the sound came at 2:11 p.m. Saturday, according to 1 ...

A trailer loaded with fireworks erupted in flames along a Tennessee interstate Saturday night, sending pyrotechnics shooting across the roadway and forcing authorities to temporarily shut down traffic ...

The data is in, and consumer-price inflation is now sitting at a three-year high on an annual basis, which will make it tough for the Fed to cut rates. Stocks are off to a lower start. Alarm bells are ...

A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.

Newly found immune cells called ‘ruptoblasts’ explode when triggered, ejecting toxic chemicals capable of delivering death to surrounding cells in just minutes. The cells’ discoverers say that this ...