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Rivers are the key to a salty sea.

At the world's largest post-apocalyptic festival, costumes are not optional.

A strange vehicle at an air show in China appears to resemble a UFO. Both the US Army and Air Force have explored similar projects that have failed.

If accepted at the time, the design would have likely revolutionized architecture.

The designs seemingly stretch the limits of science.

We'll never know what "Disney's America" would have been like, but its ghost lingers among Disney’s theme parks today.

Researchers have shown the theoretical possibility that they could store 10 petabytes (10 million gigabytes) of data in a single gram of DNA.

We're one step closer to solving an 82-year-old math riddle that has stumped the world's smartest mathematicians. But a complete answer could still be far away.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have come up with what could be a possible replacement: a rechargeable iron ion battery that uses mild steel as the anode.

Dubbed an “Aeronautical Disneyland,” the billion-dollar proposal ultimately never left the ground. But 50 years later, the city of Cleveland is still wondering what could have been.

The owner of the most comprehensive collection of washing machines walks us through the overlooked history of this iconic appliance.

On July 3, 1969, just 17 days before Neil Armstrong and Ed Aldrin walked on the lunar surface, the USSR made its second attempt to test-fire its own moon rocket, known as N1. It did not go well.

Never mind the UFOs, here are eight wonder planes that have called the secret base their home.

Fifty years after Apollo 11, Moon landing conspiracists remain as staunchly skeptical as ever. But in 2019, does not believing in humanity’s greatest achievement mean the same thing it did back in 1969?

It all transpired directly above our heads — incredible power and brilliantly orchestrated engineering.

Residents of the German town of Limberg woke up to a startling sight this morning: a crater in a field as large as a house.

How a rush of new industrial Internet of Things devices turned up the heat on a decades-old fight for spectrum.

In railroad lore, one steam engine stands above the rest as the ultimate expression of American Industrial art and science. Dormant for decades, it now lives again, restored in all its glory.

NASA’s new plan for orbit conjures a striking view of government and commerce in space.