Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in latest setback for Jeff Bezos-owned company

On Tuesday, Nasa announced that Blue Origin had won the contract to launch the first of three planned missions this year to begin construction of its $20bn moon base...

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/29/blue-origin-rocket-explodes

 

Artillery shell exploded prematurely over California freeway during marines celebration

"The president is putting his ego over responsibility with this disregard for public safety," the Democratic governor said in a statement. "Firing live rounds over a busy highway isn't just wrong – it's dangerous. Using our military to intimidate people you disagree with isn't strength – it's reckless, it's disrespectful, and it's beneath the office he holds."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/19/california-marines-explosion-freeway-jd-vance

 

Maddow on second recent SpaceX Starship explosion

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rLZ0d9qsf8Y

SpaceXplosion

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RniwaJOT93o

MAGA Radical Allegedly Caused Cybertruck Explosion! Lib TRIGGERS Fox Panelists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J53kOCAo8sQ

 

Driver of Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas blast had spent years in US army | Las Vegas | The Guardian

Livelsberger served over 19 years in the army – 18 of which were spent with special forces, according to his LinkedIn profile…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/02/cybertruck-explosion-driver-las-vegas

 

One dead after Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump hotel

Cybertruck was stuffed with firework mortars and camp fuel canisters, with authorities working to determine the motive of the incident…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/01/tesla-truck-fire-trump-hotel-las-vegas

 

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers - The New York Times

The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah phones that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah.html

Tucker Carlson, Fox air debunked video of balloon 'explosion' over Montana - The Washington Post

"MASSIVE EXPLOSION OVER MONTANA" ran across the bottom of the screen at one point Friday evening, as host Jesse Watters ran Moore's video and exclaimed, "Wow." At almost the same time Tucker Carlson was asking Gianforte about the video on his own show, a Fox News producer was trying to set the record straight, tweeting that military officials had told a network correspondent that "videos purporting to show the balloon exploding are not real."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/04/billings-montanta-explosion-video-fox/

Impact of Kerch bridge blast will be felt all the way to the Kremlin

At the very least it is a huge propaganda victory for Kyiv that will be held up as a sign that not only is it unafraid of Putin's nuclear threats but that it believes it is winning the war...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/impact-of-kerch-bridge-blast-will-be-felt-all-the-way-to-the-kremlin

Trump sours on Defense Secretary Mark Esper after clash on Lebanon

Signals that Defense Secretary Mark Esper's tenure at the Pentagon could be cut short have intensified after a long, hot summer of clashes with President Donald Trump, according to Capitol Hill and administration officials. The latest conflict involved the assessment over the cause of the devastating blast in Lebanon that left Trump seething.....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/12/trump-sours-defense-secretary-mark-esper-after-clash-lebanon/3357200001/

Teen Has Mouth Wired Shut After Vape Explodes, Fracturing His Jaw and Knocking Out Teeth - Gizmodo

Vaping may or may not be healthier than smoking conventional cigarettes, but a recent incident involving a teenage boy, in which an exploding e-cigarette blew out several of his teeth and cracked open his jaw, is a serious cause for concern.
https://gizmodo.com/teen-has-mouth-wired-shut-after-vape-explodes-fracturi-1835689187

Trump’s Iran Accusations Put U.S. Credibility on the Line - New York Magazine

Perhaps Iran really did attack two oil tankers. But experts are skeptical, and if the administration is crying wolf there could be dire consequences.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/trumps-iran-accusations-put-u-s-credibility-on-the-line.html

Japanese tanker owner contradicts U.S. account of explosion in Gulf of Oman - NBC News

The owner of the Kokuka Courageous says something had flown at the ship despite U.S. officials' claims.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/japanese-tanker-owner-contradict-u-s-officials-over-explosives-used-n1017556

Exploding e-cigarette kills 24-year-old Texas man - BBC News US

The pen exploded when the man tried to use it, causing what is at least the second such death in the US. ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47136678

Pruitt moves to rescind regulations inspired by West, Tex., chemical explosion that killed 15 - The Washington Post

Pruitt says these chemical safety regulations create "unnecessary regulatory burdens" for the chemical industry. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/18/pruitt-moves-to-rescind-regulations-inspired-by-west-tex-chemical-explosion-that-killed-15/

North Korea nuclear test site has collapsed and may be out of action – China study | World news | The Guardian

North Korea’s main nuclear test site has partially collapsed under the stress of multiple explosions, possibly rendering it unsafe for further testing and leaving it vulnerable to radiation leaks, a study by Chinese geologists has shown.....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/north-korea-nuclear-test-site-collapse-may-be-out-of-action-china

West Virginia Republicans Are Getting Behind a Candidate So Odious, Even Trump Won’t Go Near Him - Slate

At the end of an hourlong event in West Virginia on Thursday, Donald Trump polled the crowd about whom they would like to see win next month's Republican primary for U.S. Senate. "Should we do a little test?" asked the president, who was flanked by the two establishment-approved candidates, state attorney general Patrick Morrisey and U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins. "Who's voting for Patrick? Who's voting for Evan?" ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/don-blankenship-threatens-to-spoil-the-gop-senate-race-between-patrick-morrisey-and-evan-jenkins.html

7,000 massive methane gas bubbles under the Russian permafrost could explode anytime

Russian scientists have recently discovered some 7,000 underground methane bubbles in Siberia that could explode anytime.

‘Their appearance at such high latitudes is most likely linked to thawing permafrost,” explained a Russian Academy of Science spokesperson, “which is in turn linked to overall rise of temperature on the north of Eurasia during last several decades.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/methane-bubbles-arctic-769bf3f1b099