As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, WTOP presents “ 250 Years of America ,” a multipart series examining the ...

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

We now know what happened when a bomb scare shut down police headquarters and the Kent City Hall campus on Feb. 23. It was apparently a military mortar round. According to a police report, a man ...

A bold free agency prediction has the Chiefs poised to make a splash move that could ease the burden on Patrick Mahomes.

Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral and is now shining 100 times brighter than normal.

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A cannonball discovered by a couple using a metal detector in North Myrtle Beach “appeared to be a Civil War era exploding shell,” an Horry County Police report said.

Two months after losing more than 1,000 Marines at Tarawa, the U.S. military hit Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The assault on Jan. 31, 1944, would prove the Americans had learned from their ...

Anti aircraft guns were designed to protect cities from bombing raids, but their effects did not stop in the sky. Every exploding shell sent fragments and debris raining down onto streets and rooftops ...

Amid the drone revolution, artillery, which for centuries was rightly called the “god of war,” has been overshadowed. However, its importance on the battlefield remains extremely important. The range ...

LATIMER COUNTY, Okla. — The Latimer County Sheriff’s Office said two military-grade artillery shells were detonated and disposed of on Monday. According to LCSO, deputies were contacted about two ...

An oxidized explosive shell, believed to date back to World War II, was discovered during seabed survey works linked to the expansion of Pier 6 at the Port of Thessaloniki, authorities said. According ...