An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds. Halley's comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its ...

We all know the Wright Brothers changed the history of flying—but what exactly was their groundbreaking discovery? For the ...

In the shadow of the Wright brothers’ achievements, high school students have built a plane of their own — only the second ...

A company that started by tracking bullets now sets the standard for tracking golf balls. FlightScope’s journey spans continents and decades, built on a commitment to precision that began in South ...

BEIJING — The search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was set to resume Tuesday, more than a decade after the plane went missing with 239 people on board in one of the world’s greatest ...

Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men went missing, too, giving rise to a host of conspiracy theories Francine ...

Sometimes you get a pitch in your inbox that you just can’t not write about. I got one of those this morning; it's the new Honeycomb Echo Aviation Controller, a flight sim gamepad that's due for ...

The Senate has advanced a deal to potentially end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Flight reductions at 40 of the nation's busiest airports are already in effect due to air traffic ...

Flight disruptions rapidly increased in number over the weekend, according to Flight Aware's Misery Map, as many airports were directed to reduce traffic by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

The East Wing of the White House has long served as the public’s main gateway into the executive mansion. Until very recently, it housed the Office of the First Lady as well as the President’s Theater ...