Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket blew up while the company was testing the spacecraft Sept. 29 at its Texas facility.

LASALLE, Ill. (CBS) -- After an extra-alarm fire sent a billow of smoke into the air like a volcano in LaSalle, neighbors expressed concern about the chemical particles that landed on their property ...

Forest fires raging near the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in north Ukraine are releasing a surge of airborne plutonium particles as radioactive twigs, branches and leaf litter burn. The ...

MONROVIA, Calif. (KABC) -- It's not just ugly and smelly. The horrible air quality from wildfires is unhealthy even hazardous. And it's not confined to the fire zones: the smoke has spread across much ...

Carbon particles from a car's exhaust sparked the fast-moving 400-acre brush fire near Lake Jennings that shut down Interstate 8 and prompted mandatory evacuations, Cal Fire Chief Tony Mecham said.

Smoke from a massive industrial fire in Indiana has displaced scores of residents because of possible harmful particles in the air. The fire is contained, but it's expected to burn for days. Smoke ...