the USSR detonated the largest nuclear weapon ever tested and created the biggest man-made explosion in history. The blast, 3,000 times stronger than the bomb used on Hiroshima, broke windows 560 ...

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Now, astronomers have detected what they believe is the largest explosion ever observed by humans, and it took place in a cluster of galaxies nearly 400 million light-years away. The record ...

Modeling changes in how Earth wobbles as it spins can give a rough picture of this slowdown over the planet's history ... encompassed the Cambrian explosion, a period when life diversified ...

The Tunguska Event is the largest space-related explosion in human history (Picture: Getty The action films almost always start the same. A lone astronomer peaks through the observatory telescope ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest explosion ever detected in deep space which, according to them, was ten times more luminous than any supernova or exploding star. The brightness — called ...

The Halifax explosion on December 6, 1917 wiped out six square kilometres of the city. It was the largest manmade explosion the world had known. (National Archives of Canada) Ships carrying ...

To put the size of history's largest nuclear blasts to scale, we have used Alex Wellerstein's Nukemap. In the maps, the first ring of the blast is the fireball, followed by the radiation radius.