Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...

A neutrino with almost unimaginable energy slammed into Earth in early 2023, carrying roughly 220 petaelectronvolts, far beyond anything human machines can produce. The event, tagged KM3-230213A, has ...

A single subatomic particle that hit Earth in 2023 carried roughly 100,000 times more energy than anything humanity has ever ...

These are good times for Caterpillar. The company that makes all of that yellow heavy construction equipment — previously of Peoria, Illinois, now based in Irving, Texas — reported profits that beat ...

Cruiser motorcycles and large engines go hand in hand. That gets you the lazy, effortless torque of a large-capacity engine, the stress-free lope at highway speeds, and the ability to carry a lot of ...

Car companies have been re-launching powerful V8 engines that were previously discontinued. Many high-powered trucks were removed from the US market as car companies switched to more fuel-efficient ...

With a major winter storm about to blast pretty much every US state east of the Rocky Mountains, many are scrambling to prepare for the cold, ice, and snow. And according to popular meteorology ...

North Jerseyans should be aware of the effects of extreme cold this weekend, from frostbite and numbness to ... exploding trees? That last item is a possibility, according to a viral post on X from ...

Severe cold temperatures hitting much of the country this week could branch out − literally. As people brace for the winter weather, some social media posts in recent days have warned of the chance ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Experts say trees do not explode but can crack loudly due to rapid temperature changes. This phenomenon, known as "frost cracking," occurs when tree sap freezes and expands. Young trees, thin-barked ...

As Wisconsin and much of the upper Midwest prepare for rapidly dropping subzero temperatures, some viral social media posts warn people to watch out for "exploding trees." The phenomenon, while ...