It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole —that was so powerful astronomers quickly dubbed it BOAT, for “Brightest of all Time.” That ...

In 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, a hydrogen bomb with a 50-megaton yield—the largest explosion ever created by ...

For this list, we scoured the history books to drum up some of the most enormous non-nuclear explosions ever recorded. Some are modern, while others date back centuries. These blasts originated from ...