A massive fireball, possibly a bolide or comet nucleus, blew up above the Vitim River Basin in Siberia.

Pieces of the ship were found with chunks of pumice and lava embedded into the wreckage.

A $125 million Martian space probe vanished in a puff of silence — all because of a simple math mistake.

An American satellite picked up the tell-tale double flash of a nuclear explosion…or did it?

He was an instant hero but it came with a cost.

His name probably doesn't ring any bells, but his invention is one of the world's most useful items.

The first recorded instance of a hurricane making the big jump from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

A little after midnight, a mysterious object appeared over the Iranian capital.

It would become the largest maritime disaster of World War II.

Thomas Selfridge eagerly volunteered as a passenger aboard a plane flown by Orville Wright.

Night fishing goes terribly wrong when two men are abducted by wrinkly crab-like creatures.

Shavarsh Karapetyan was just finishing a 12-mile run when he heard the crash of a trolley bus.

38 people were killed and over 300 were seriously injured.

As the rocket streaked across the sky at over 12,000 miles an hour, a mysterious saucer-shaped object began circling the missile.

The pitcher was on the mound when a swarm of gnats created a black cloud around him.

She was a groundbreaking dancer and a fervently unconventional woman.

A railroad worker suffered a gruesome injury that would become a landmark case in the understanding of the human brain.

In 1899, a man stepped off a New York streetcar and into the history books.

Seven people had a famous encounter with the Flatwoods Monster. It's one of the most celebrated UFO incidents of all time.

An object about the size of a small car slammed into the moon.