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A hot air balloon caught fire and exploded near the Egyptian city of Luxor Tuesday, killing 19 tourists, including British, French, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals.

W49B is an unusually shaped supernova remnant that scientists think might have a new black hole at its core.

Scientists say the asteroid 2012 DA14 that passed close to Earth on Friday and the fireball over Russia are not connected.

The mid-air explosion of a meteor over Russia echoes another extraterrestrial encounter that occurred more than a century ago known as the Tunguska Event.

A Syrian opposition group alleged Tuesday that the mini-bus explosion on the Syria-Turkey border Monday that killed 10 Syrians and four Turkish nationals may have targeted the group’s delegation.

The capture of the Al-Furat dam has been touted as one of the major strategic victories for the rebels.

The monkey that was presented post-flight and the monkey that was loaded into the capsule seem like very different animals.

Mexican officials are searching for the cause of a Mexico City explosion that killed 14 people and injured 100 more on Thursday.

Thieves attempting to break in and rob a church in Houston were thwarted when one of the thieves cut the main electrical line, causing the church to explode.

An explosion caused by a natural gas leak in downtown Springfield, Mass., on Friday gutted two buildings, caused irreparable damage to three more buildings and injured 18 people.

Authorities are now treating the Indianapolis explosion that destroyed homes and killed two neighbors as a homicide.

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded leaving at least two dead, several reports said.

Teacher Jennifer Longworth and her husband were confirmed to have died in an explosion in Indianapolis on Saturday night.

Over 200 patients at NYU Langone Medical Center were transferred to other facilities after back-up generators failed to restore power.

NASA discovered a black home in the Milky Way galaxy after observing an extremely rare X-ray nova

A car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon, killed at least eight on Friday, sparking fears of increased spillover from Syria.

A car filled with explosives rammed into a U.S. government vehicle near the U.S. Consulate in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar Monday, killing two people and injuring five others, media reports said citing Pakistani authorities.

The Hurricane Isaac-related shutdown of at least four U.S. oil refineries and an explosion at a major refinery in Venezuela -- the fourth-largest provider of oil to the U.S. -- could lead to oil prices rising as supply falls.

With casualties of the earthshaking explosion at Venezuela's largest oil refinery rising to 39 dead and more than 80 injured on Saturday, President Hugo Chavez has called for an investigation to determine the cause of the firestorm at the Amuay plant in Falcon state in the northwest of the country.

A bomb destroyed 22 of NATO's oil-tanker trucks parked alongside a road in northern Samangan province overnight. The fire from the massive explosion was still burning Wednesday morning.

Remember last week when San Diego totally ruined their fireworks display? The show that was set to go on for 15 minutes took all of 15 seconds as the city accidentally launched all of their fireworks at once. Now a new video has emerged showing the fireworks debacle from a much closer perspective than any previous videos