The Fourth of July is synonymous with fireworks displays, but before all the bright colors and thunderous booms, scientists are hard at work behind the scenes making each firework display its best.

The skies over Steamboat Springs, Colorado, erupted in red as the world’s largest firework launched Saturday night at the city’s annual winter carnival. The firework shell weighed almost 2,800 pounds, ...

(WVNS) — The rush of sunset on the 4th of July, the cool breeze just after as the sky gets darker and darker, racing to find the perfect spot to watch the firework show. The crowd growing as chatter ...

The largest firework in the world, weighing almost 2,800 pounds, lit the skies over a winter festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, on Saturday. The firework shell, which measured 62 inches, a ...

At last year’s winter carnival in Steamboat Springs, Loveland pyrotechnician Eric Krug watched as the firework he had spent hundreds of hours working on exploded prematurely while it was still ...

A massive firework exploded above a Colorado town on Saturday and blazed its way to a world record. The 2,797 pound firework broke the Guinness World Record for the the largest aerial firework shell, ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — “We tried last year, and we failed,” said Tim Borden, project manager at Steamboat Fireworks and one of a four-man team behind the firework that set a world record in ...