The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations.

“We haven’t seen war on our own soil since the Civil War,” Sitterud said ... A kinetic sculpture of 30 Mylar happy face balloons, drifting and bobbing, with movements dictated by unseen ...

Many important and influential people have called Augusta home, but you may not know it was the boyhood home of a U.S.

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon.

This weekend in Canberra sees an impressive lineup of cultural and recreational activities across the city. Check out our ...

In 1945, 7,000 Allied planes dropped more than 12,000 tons of explosives on Germany during a single World War II daytime bombing ... In 1965, more than 300 civil rights demonstrators, led by ...

President Trump announced Friday that Boeing will build the Air Force’s future fighter jet, which the Pentagon says will have ...

Internally, Columbia faces pressure to fight back. Some faculty want it to resist demands they see as an assault on academic ...