Longshot Space wants to build a 6-mile-long (10-km) space cannon to shoot several-ton objects into low Earth orbit (LEO). The ...

These friends went outside to test their homemade potato launcher, but as they aimed the gun at their target, the backing of the launcher popped off and shot out at the cameraman's hands, causing him ...

A raid on a journalist's Maryland home is garnering national attention after homeland security officials seized documents which disclosed some of her confidential sources. In her home she has stacks ...

A second man was sentenced for his part in a fatal potato gun explosion last June in Champaign County. On Tuesday, Jason Anderson, 22, of Marysville, pleaded guilty to negligent assault. Anderson ...

The potato gun was loaded with an apple. But whoever left the device outside Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring over the weekend apparently picked an overly plump apple or misjudged the ...

A Woodlands teenager earned a trip to jail after he was found with a homemade "potato" gun. The makeshift guns, which are traditionally made with plastic piping and are also called combustion ...

HULL (AP) - A potato gun stuffed with explosive powder ignited and erupted, killing a Hull man on Friday night. The potato gun apparently ruptured when it was fired by Ryan Meerdink, 21, authorities ...

STEP 1: Push one end of the copper tube into the potato. Pull the tube out of the potato. STEP 2: Push the other end of the copper tube into the potato. Pull the tube out of the potato. STEP 3: Use ...