On Wednesday, I went for a walk outside around a lake near my home. I didn’t wear a mask. I could see, clearly, the buildings ...

Three brothers were among the seven who died when the warehouse storing the fireworks exploded on July 1, sparking a wildfire ...

The Challenger wasn’t the nation’s first space tragedy. Reaching for the stars comes with a cost. But this was the first spaceship to break apart on live television, exploding before our very eyes -- ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off at Kennedy Space Center, carrying seven people, including New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe, the first private citizen chosen for space ...

Call it frost cracking or nature’s gunfire: winter has a way of making trees scream. Add VegOut to your Google News feed. Recent winter storms across North America have sparked viral social media ...

The bright orange blast and trails of smoke in the Florida sky on Jan. 28, 1986, supplanted pride and excitement with stunned silence among the children and teens on Long Island and across the nation ...

Did anyone else grow up in perpetual fear of any and all natural disasters? I don’t know if it was cartoons or what, but as a kid who lived in the very urban city of Philadelphia, I was convinced I ...

Bitterly cold arctic air has blanketed parts of the United States over the last week, with some areas getting snow and subzero temperatures. Along with the cold weather comes a natural event called ...