In September 1813, a major hurricane destroyed US gunboats and ships that were defending St Mary’s, Georgia, from the British. Fifty sailors drowned.

In a letter to the US secretary of the navy, the commodore of the naval task force wrote that a privateer named Saucy Jack had been deposited so high on the marshes that […]

As tickets for Concorde’s final flight go on sale this week, an American aerospace company has demonstrated a way to modify a supersonic jet to dramatically reduce its sonic boom.

The work could pave the way for a new generation of business jets quiet enough to fly at supersonic speed over populated areas.

Sonic booms are one […]

Eurostar passengers had their first taste of high-speed rail travel in Britain as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link opened to the public Sunday, shaving 20 minutes off the trip from London to Paris and Brussels, Belgium.

Prime Minister Tony Blair officially opened the 46 new miles of track Sept. 16, but the line had remained closed […]

The first solo European mission to the Moon is well on its way. The Smart 1 probe blasted off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 2314 GMT.

Forty-two minutes later, ground controllers said the spacecraft had been released successfully from its Ariane 5 rocket launcher and was on its correct course.