If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just an arbitrary gimmick, but it ...

Pilots who land at Reagan National face a unique set of complications, including short runways, scores of helicopters and a ...

Former Vice President Al Gore has put his longtime Arlington, Va., home up for rent for an eye-watering $9,000 a month-more than two decades after he retreated to the property after losing the 2000 ...

Since it was launched in 1958, well over 1,000 songs have reached the coveted No. 1 spot, but far fewer have reigned long enough to reach double-digit weeks — or, even more impressively ...

The mantle of world No.1 in tennis is something every player aspires for but few ever achieve. When it comes to women's singles, Serena Williams dominated for years, although younger players ...

The mantle of world No.1 in tennis is something every player aspires for but few ever achieve. When it comes to men's singles, only a handful of names held the top spot over the past two decades.

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.

The Army official said that the pilots were on a routine training flight along a familiar flight path that isn't particularly ...

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

The Greenwich Foot Tunnel, which links Cutty Sark Gardens to Island Gardens, opened in 1902 as a lifeline for workers heading to the shipyards and docks of East London. Before that, people relied on ...