The U.S. daily *Washington Post* (WP) reported on the 5th that a small lakeside village in Switzerland has seen a six-year ...

The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of Vandenberg Space Force Base, home to more than a dozen at-risk species, easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve — but that’s ...

MANSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — A freight train derailed Thursday in Connecticut, sending cars carrying flammable liquid propane into ...

Last weekend's winter storm dumped snow and ice across the South, but some people also experienced loud booms and felt their homes shake because of a weather phenomenon called "frost quake." ...

These noises are known as frost quakes or cryoseisms, a cold-weather phenomenon that occurs when rain or melted snow in the ...

What are frost quakes and what’s the cause of the mysterious sound? - The process begins when rain or melted snow saturates ...

Overnight on Jan. 26, many people online reported hearing loud booms, mistakenly assuming they were tremors or earthquakes ...

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have presented a new method for tracking objects, including uncontrolled space debris, entering Earth’s atmosphere, using ground-based seismic sensors ...

First it was exploding trees and now it’s frost quakes? It could be a wild weekend across the Upper Midwest. With dangerously cold weather set to impact the upper Midwest starting on Friday and ...

Construction has finished on HS2's longest tunnel, which includes extensions with ventilation holes carved out to prevent sonic booms. Trains travelling at 200mph will take only three minutes to go ...

Some questions remain about the cause of the hours-long Verizon outage that impacted cell service for over a million customers on Jan. 14. Service was totally restored after 10 p.m. ET on Wednesday, ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has apologised for a sonic boom that was heard as a loud explosion over Norfolk and Suffolk. People in and between Norwich and Ipswich had taken to social media and contacted ...