A $125 million Martian space probe vanished in a puff of silence — all because of a simple math mistake.

He was an instant hero but it came with a cost.

An American satellite picked up the tell-tale double flash of a nuclear explosion…or did it?

His name probably doesn't ring any bells, but his invention is one of the world's most useful items.

The first recorded instance of a hurricane making the big jump from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

A little after midnight, a mysterious object appeared over the Iranian capital.

It would become the largest maritime disaster of World War II.

Night fishing goes terribly wrong when two men are abducted by wrinkly crab-like creatures.

Thomas Selfridge eagerly volunteered as a passenger aboard a plane flown by Orville Wright.

Shavarsh Karapetyan was just finishing a 12-mile run when he heard the crash of a trolley bus.

38 people were killed and over 300 were seriously injured.

As the rocket streaked across the sky at over 12,000 miles an hour, a mysterious saucer-shaped object began circling the missile.

The pitcher was on the mound when a swarm of gnats created a black cloud around him.

She was a groundbreaking dancer and a fervently unconventional woman.

A railroad worker suffered a gruesome injury that would become a landmark case in the understanding of the human brain.

In 1899, a man stepped off a New York streetcar and into the history books.

Seven people had a famous encounter with the Flatwoods Monster. It's one of the most celebrated UFO incidents of all time.

The large canopy above the King of Hungary collapsed, killing him instantly.

An object about the size of a small car slammed into the moon.

Commodore Perry met the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.