Shoemaker-Levy 9’s impact with Jupiter was the largest explosion ever recorded in space. With an explosive force rivaling millions of atom bombs, this event reshaped Jupiter’s atmosphere and ...

But it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.

On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, almost 700 times stronger than the bombs used ...

Israel’s demilitarization of Syria continued with one of its biggest strikes yet, triggering an explosion that registered on ...

Scientists have spotted the biggest cosmic explosion ever recorded. This enormous fireball, which is about 8 billion light years away, is approximately 100 times bigger than the solar system.

Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the largest explosion ever detected. The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any recorded exploding star - known as a supernova.

A video going viral on social media showed an Israeli bomb going off in northwestern Syria near the city of Tartus, leading to a supposed giant mushroom cloud fireball. The explosion was so ...

A crater stretching three quarters of a mile deep represents a permanent reminder of the events that unfolded on that fateful ...

Colossal' explosions have filled the skies in Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the 'the heaviest strikes' in the area for more than a decade - with blasts which ...

On this day 80 years ago, Staffordshire was hit by the largest ever non-nuclear explosion on British soil ... at 11.11am on November 27, 1944. Bombs and ammunition were being stored at RAF ...

The device would have had a yield approximately double that of the combined explosive power of all nuclear weapons in existence today.