Imagine you’re driving to work on a rainy day, when a distracted, reckless driver hits your car out of nowhere. With a “boom,” an airbag deploys faster than you can blink your eyes to save your life.

A man who believes the Earth is flat is going to launch himself in a homemade rocket. Mike Hughes is a limo driver and a self-taught rocket scientist. He built a rocket out of salvage parts in his ...

Aftershock II, a new rocket built by students at the University of Southern California, recently broke a number of 20-year-old amateur spaceflight records for altitude, power and speed. It reached ...