That step turned into the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter. The Me 262 was conceived in 1938, though it wouldn't fly under full jet power until mid-1942.

On December 21, 2015, after the Dragon Spacecraft was launched into orbit, the SpaceX company celebrated victory. The main ...

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The Falcon 1 made history on September 28, 2008 by becoming the "first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit," according to SpaceX. Hear from the team that made it happen. Credit ...

The surprise announcement marks a significant milestone toward the Japanese car manufacturer's goal of achieving suborbital ...

The trade of Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets officially kicks off the NBA offseason cycle, Game 7s be damned. The ...

The 4% Rule No Longer Works for Retirees, Says the Man Who Invented It New research from the inventor of the 4% rule highlights how diversification, rebalancing and rising glide paths can safely ...

Another six space tourists are preparing for Blue Origin's next human spaceflight, which will send the crew on a trip high ...

Christchurch aerospace entrepreneur Mark Rocket became the first Kiwi in space on Blue Origin’s NS-32 mission. Rocket and five others reached 105km, experiencing zero gravity during the 11 ...

An aerospace entrepreneur who legally changed his surname to Rocket has become the first Kiwi in space, blasting off aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepherd NS-3 ...

The hypothetical scenario described above is based on a 2015 theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains – in present-day Hungary – first invented the wheel nearly 6,000 years ago as a ...

The first recipe of what we'd call gunpowder first appeared in the 9th century C.E. text "Taishang Shengzu Jindan Mijue." Around 50 years later, it appeared in the "Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe ...