NEW YORK — The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but the light from one may dim the other. The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks Friday night into Saturday morning, ...

Supermoons happen a few times a year and come in groups, taking advantage of the sweet spot in the moon’s elliptical orbit.

The new year began with a bang as an object streaked across the heavens above Haywood — illuminating the sky with a ...

An eagle-eyed photographer captured the moment a shining fireball cut across the sky in southeast New Hampshire early Saturday evening. Rob Wright, a professional photographer based in New Hampshire, ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor. The blast registered as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake and was felt ...

Raucous protests erupted across Iran over the nation’s severely battered economy that’s made life unaffordable for many of its people as the regime’s leaders spun into damage control this week.

The local police said that their preliminary toll was about 40 dead, with roughly 115 injured, in the early morning blaze at a bar in the resort town of Crans-Montana. Dozens of people were killed and ...

An explosion at a nursing home in eastern Pennsylvania left at least two people dead, injured several others and collapsed part of the building, trapping people inside, on Tuesday afternoon.

A resident and an employee were killed after two explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center resulted in a large fire and partial collapse of the building, officials said. By Chris Hippensteel ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The last major meteor shower of the year, known as the Ursids, peaks soon, bringing glowing streaks to nighttime and early morning skies. Compared to other meteor showers, it’s more ...

“She worked to try to provide for her family. She liked serving people," the son of victim Muthoni Nduthu said An explosion at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center (also known as the Silver Lake ...