 Power systems have a significant impact on modern life, but they can still encounter emergency situations that lead to blackouts. This paper provides a comprehensive review of major blackouts and cascading events that have occurred in the last decade, with a particular focus on the US power system outages. The root causes of different blackouts around the world are also highlighted. Blackout and cascading analysis methods and their consequences are surveyed, as well as challenges in existing protective schemes and research gaps in the topic of power system blackout and cascading events. Research directions and issues to be considered in future power system blackout studies are proposed. This article was authored by Hassan Hayes Al-Halu, Mohammed S. Mahal Hamadani Gulshan, Takawira Kuthpert agenda, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.