When the USS San Francisco slammed into an undetected undersea mountain, crew had to scramble to save the vessel—and themselves.

When two passenger planes collided above the Grand Canyon, it changed the course of aviation forever.

If NASA’s bet on the X-59 pays off, it will revolutionize commercial aviation, making the journey from New York to Paris a four-hour joyride.

Alamy AFTER WEEKS OF rain and fog at Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airfield, site of the Soviet Union’s top flight test center, New Year’s Eve 1968 dawned with more of the same. This was immensely discouraging for members of the flight test team, who had been…

What will you do when it looks like clouds on Eclipse Day? You’re going to dump your music festival or family meetup plans and CHASE it. That’s because you have one goal: Success.For more info, join my big FB group dedicated to the…

oon after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, a collection of short videos emerged on social media: camera views from aboard small consumer drones that were carefully—almost casually—dropping mortars into the open hatches of Russian…

I’m a science and technology journalist, and an avid eclipse chaser.Learn everything you need by joining my 40,000-member Facebook group dedicated to this event:https://facebook.com/groups/2024totalsolareclipse/Read my Wired article about the 2019…

n late 2020, physicist Harold “Sonny” White, PhD, research director of the nonprofit Limitless Space Institute, noticed something peculiar—and familiar—in a circular pattern of data plots generated by a recent experiment. White and his team in LSI’s…

The best portable jump starters for cars and trucks are sleek, computer-regulated, lithium-ion gadgets that can fit discreetly in your trunk or glove box.

Few scientific tools are as productive, publicly revered, and seemingly infinitely capable as the humble observatory telescope. This optical marvel—found in locations ranging from the early Kitt Peak and Mt. Wilson observatories to Keck and La Silla,…

It’s easy to understand the allure of astrophotography. After all, you can aim your camera at the night sky and in a matter of seconds capture light that’s been traveling for thousands of years across the cosmos to generate spectacular images of…

Infotainment: your car's command center. Here's everything you need to know about infotainment technology, from history to future advances.

In James Bond’s latest outing, No Time to Die, the spy’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 emerges from the mangled wreckage of its destruction in 2012’s Skyfall to resume its rightful place as Bond’s vehicular multitool. Seen first in the new film shuffling…

I pulled up to the Canadian border station in northern New York back in June, fully expecting to be sent home. The global pandemic was raging and nonessential traffic was prohibited. But my visit counted: I was on assignment from several…

Over the summer of 2020, Vermont-based electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies unveiled its new eVTOL air taxi prototype, the Alia-250. This video digs into the innovative design, engineering, and overall conception of the striking new…

In the last year, options for the EV-curious have exploded. Not long ago, Tesla, Chevrolet, Nissan, and BMW were the only truly viable games in town. Now, there are extremely capable all-electric models from virtually every manufacturer. Most have…

It’s called the "seven minutes of terror." As the 2,300-pound, six-wheeled, nuclear-powered Perseverance rover approaches Mars on Thursday, a supersonic parachute will slow the descent vehicle to 200 mph. About 70 feet above the landing site,…

It’s been 65 years since the Shumaker Naval Ammunition Depot in Camden, Arkansas, closed down, after just over a decade of postwar service manufacturing missiles for military aircraft. But its presence can still be felt in this region of the state,…

Snow geese migrating through eastern Pennsylvania. All content captured January 19, 2021.

As Covid-19 shut down air travel, the industry quickly pivoted to hauling more stuff. It won’t be pivoting away anytime soon. Businesses around the globe have suffered immeasurably in 2020. Some, however, have taken far more devastating…